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   by _as31 4y ago

   Google is indeed already indexing the Fediverse. A Fediverse long-timer I've talked to justified this by saying that Mastodon is "more like speaking" and websites are "more like publishing". However, I pointed out t
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   by _as31 4y ago

   Harassment and toxicity on Mastodon is a very real thing indeed.
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   by _as31 4y ago

   Furthermore, crawlers may not respect the opt-out tag. https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/13207 Another thing -- noindex is not federated. I used to enable noindex, and still found my content on Goog
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   by _as31 4y ago

   There are jurisdictions (the EU, the UK, Singapore, Japan) with copyright exceptions specifically for text and data mining for AI purposes. https://www.twobirds.com/en/insights/2021/singapore/coming-u...
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   by _as31 4y ago

   I feel like Lobsters has better quality discourse nowadays though, due to its much more explicit vetting system. I am not part of that website, yet I love reading the comment section there.
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   by _as31 4y ago

   > So far, the most likely solution to the problem of a mass point-to-point communication system is to not have a mass point-to-point communication system. Shard it down until people are able to behave reasonably well, even if that means
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   ActivityPub – Final thoughts, one year later. (2019)(overengineer.dev)

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