Mastodon’s Eternal September Begins

Re:Mastodon’s Eternal September Begins by sinity on Thursday November 10, 2022 @09:15PM (#33556542)

> The next person will do this without announcing it, in a way that just looks like a server full of lurkers. When you have a protocol that's all about broadcasting things to anyone who asks to be notified, it's very hard to enforce "no indexing".

Yeah, their culture doesn't sound very... sane from these descriptions. Neurotic about weird stuff, like someone linking to them.

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Re:Mastodon’s Eternal September Begins by peterashford on Thursday November 10, 2022 @10:11PM (#33556896)

I would say that says more about your preconceptions than their sanity. There's nothing wrong with people wanting spaces with different rules. That's why they built their own space, after all

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Re:Mastodon’s Eternal September Begins by simfree on Saturday November 12, 2022 @03:38PM (#33576807)

Built, currently host, manage access to, and block malicious actors from too.

Some instances don't even allow non-logged in users to view public toots, good luck scraping those toots without sendingba follow request (which will be seen by the account and server admin.

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