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Just because you can, doesn't mean you should archive peoples private lives, especially if those already deny robots in general, which many mastodon profiles do
by sascha_sl 7y ago
Just because you can, doesn't mean you should archive peoples private lives, especially if those already deny robots in general, which many mastodon profiles do.
I can understand overriding a corporate decision, but the meta tag on Mastodon profiles is a user preference that is explicitly opt in.
There's a lot of harm that can be done with archived data and you idiots never see the issue because you're not targets and you assume anything anyone puts on the internet will be curl'd by someone. But that's because YOU'RE THE ONES DOING IT. STOP.
- scohesc 7y agoThen practice good opsec and post under a pseudonym or something. We're past the point where you should expect any privacy of your identity on the internet.
- jolmg 7y ago> We're past the point It never was a point. It was common sense since the old days to never expect privacy from what you publish on the internet. That's what publishing means.
- tripzilch 7y agoBecause they are the ones normalising the habit of smearing your personal details all over the net. I mean it seriously, we didn't used to do that. Anonymity, pseudonymity, remember how nobody used to know you're a dog on the Internet? > But that's because YOU'RE THE ONES DOING IT. STOP. No it's because the people who are doing harm using that data are doing harm. And they're not listening.