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Why isn't that believable?
by jfarina 6y ago
Why isn't that believable?
- retpirato 6y agoHow does Google know this unless they have some access to the databases of each of those sites/instances? Why would google have that kind of access?
- saghm 6y agoCouldn't this get done as part of the manual review of an app's source code? It seems like this wouldn't necessarily have to be automated
- mynameismonkey 6y agoAnd right after that we can remove any FTP client that uses the FTP protocol to download content Google doesn't like. We should scan all apps that use a common, published protocol to make sure the protocol is not being used to consume objectionable content. /s The app is not the service; the protocol is not the platform.
- saghm 6y agoI think you might have misread my comment; I wasn't suggesting whether a course of action was correct or not, but just explaining how it could technically be feasible. I interpreted the comment I responded to as not understanding how it would be possible for Google to have done this a certain way, and I was theorizing one possible way they might have done it.
- mynameismonkey 6y agoAh, then yes, apologies -I did not mean to put words in your mouth. Technical feasibility is likely easier than imagined; most Mastodon services use the auto-generated list that appears on their "about" page - easily scraped if not available through the API - here's the list on the instance I moderate on for example: https://toot.wales/about/more#unavailable-content https://toot.wales/about/more#unavailable-content
- fuzxi 6y agoSuch apps tend to advertise that they block instances. Tusky, for example, blocks all Gab instances and says so right in the FAQ [1]. [1]: https://github.com/tuskyapp/faq https://github.com/tuskyapp/faq bottom of the page