Here's the draft of the blog post; I hoped it would clarify things. The only reason I haven't published it yet is that it included links to the "FSE Meets the FBI" article, which I have not published yet. (That one will take some work to finish up; the current draft has some events going in the wrong order, I have to correct them, so it is about 4k words.) This is a draft so I might change some of it, and there are some links missing, and my markdown format is idiosyncratic because it is half Ward's Wiki and half RedCloth. about-fedilist
@sun@i@kirby@p@graf Because they don't understand this cat and mouse game. They will poison API data, because a filthy bot scrapes that, but than proudly display the real stats on /.
@p@benis_redux@i@kirby@graf I don't have the right to complain about data poisoning considering I was probably the first person to ever do it on the fediverse
@sun@p@benis_redux@i@kirby It's funny when we do it. Mine was poisoning that bird makeup instance because he was misrepresenting him user agent and aggressively scraping accounts so I fed all his accounts the tweets from the Israel account. Good times
@graf@benis_redux@i@kirby@p yeah, the way I did it was, there was a bot that just reported the version string of your server software every time you updated. so I edited the PHP to make the version string the daddies cummies copypasta, which the bot then obediently posted to all its followers.
@sun@benis_redux@graf@i@kirby Well, there's malicious data poisoning and then there's IDIFTL reasons and the latter is always justified.
If you have a giant thread full of hand-wringing about how making a list of fedi servers is basically the same as doing a Holocaust, then it is safe to assume that the lulz have not been conslutted. 1185613622217.png
> how is your instance metadata search engine, that indexes /api/'s meant for clients, not fit for robots.txt exactly?
"halp whois ignores robots.txt"
Read RFC 9309. I am not indexing web pages. FediList is not a search engine. It does include search but I don't think most people use it. The implication seems to be that if I take out the search box, it's fine to ignore robots.txt.
Consider whether anything you have to say about this leads to an absurd conclusion.
> but what other option do they have
You could read the thing or you could read one paragraph of the thing and then ask me questions answered in other paragraphs of the thing.
> you not caring is fair, but them not caring is fair too
I was responding to them. I don't think they have to care. They are incorrect about why it exists and what it is supposed to do, so for the most part I have laid out my rationale. The rationale was laid out with the hope that this would assuage their fears that I plan to do fediverse Holocaust and that communication could make things work out better. I can't tag them on fedi: they all block FSE. So here's a blog post and they can look at the blog post. They don't have to change their minds and I don't plan to fight human nature, but I have provided information about why I do what I do.