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Would you prefer that YOU ARE HIDDEN on the Fediverse?

That nobody (new) ever follows you?

That nobody (new) ever sees your posts?

I KNOW THIS QUESTION SEEMS WEIRD, BUT — THERE IS A SMALL GROUP THAT IS CURRENTLY ARGUING MOST PEOPLE ON THE FEDIVERSE WANT TO BE HIDDEN IN THIS WAY

They don't represent me. And I don't think they should (even implicitly) speak for me

IF YOU DON'T WANT TO BE HIDDEN LIKE THIS — PLEASE VOTE "NO"

Please boost for reach.

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@lclarke522

@donni

Chicago comedian in real life, Internet poster in posting. Proudly hatless. Suspicious of most squirrels. Only wrestles sea cows seasonally

@batkaren

my mom fucked a bat

@HadasWeiss

dm “thanks for the follow” and i’ll unfollow, only sayin this once

no rude posts

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@Livingmarble

Still in that awkward pre-ghost phase
Writer/Editor at The Beaverton
Vancouver, Canada
I'm mostly on Bluesky

@Gogs

Your Occasional Adequacy

Very much just saying things, really.


All my posts …. oh, OK then (but we’re discussing this terminology at some point), ‘toots’: justmytoots.com/@gogs@mas.to

@partnumber2

A small intro: I’m someone of no importance.
I’m not frightened of dying. What scares me is NOT dying.

Survived cancer and various other things/people that have tried to kill me.
If it ain’t Pompey, politics or nonsense I ain’t interested 😎
Dum vivimus, vivamus

@VeryBadLlama

Writer, comedian, illustrator, and international woman of mystery. Sworn enemy of the Swedish Yule Goat.

@the_anastasia
That girl...you know the one...
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@Alice

Mostly one-liners at my own expense

Awkward AF

Midwest to West Coast

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@ElleGray

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TOOTS POSTED BY MY HUMAN GHOSTWRITER AGAINST HIS WILL.

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Normalize calling Sam Altman ai-nāṣir.

@MAJ1

Member of the Great Migration of Nov 2022

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Wide musical tastes, scouse sense of humour.
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Hi! I'm healyn. You may remember me from such instances as mastodon.social

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Hi, I'm Ben.

I'm a heady mix of a serious responsible grown up man and a stupid man-baby idiot with delusions of grandeur.

I'm a big nerd, really into music, cooking, books, films and scifi. I hate/love running and generally love being outdoors.

🌱

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@atomicpoet @dansup we should be building tools to create better experiences, not griping about #noindex #nobridge and the sort. There will always be people not following the rules. If you care about privacy, don't post PII, and don't post anything you wouldn't mind falling into the hands of big tech. In the age of LLMs they will do everything they can to circumvent any protection implemented by fedi devs and they have way more resources. UX > Fedi social norms 100% of the time IMO.

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@ken_fallon @hpr @methoddan @Edent @webmink @perloid @garythewilliams

The chat about "grabbing comments" at the start is quite interesting. I don't know if you know already, but it is common for people who don't want their comments archived to have (or , or ) in their bio. Nothing is a surefire protection, since what they want is not very coherent (they kind of want you to read their mind) - but accounting for that tag at least gives people an opt-out.

Ping me for a free review copy of my latest titles * Fiction: Terminal Warfare:L ady, Scientist, Lover, Spy Female protagonist Anja Thorsdottir battles murky Kremlin ring to recover stolen pandemic cure. *Fiction: Prequel to the above; medieval villagers in Icefjord battle the Black Death and lunatic grifters. Non-fiction: Peace in Ukraine: Victory Over the New Fascism Non-fiction: Stand with Ukraine: Debunking the Propaganda https://mybook.to/wickedgoodreading ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ My lengthy profile, under revision: First they came for the 🏳️‍🌈 Then they came for the 🏳️‍⚧️ Then they came for the ✡️ 1938 is now. Act! Plain English Security Translator #BLM Pronouns མོ་(རང་ Algonquin Confederation created American democracy. 🌊 #slavaukraine #violinist #guitarist #songwriter #CovidisAirborne On #fedi b4 twit migra #dogs #bitwarden #keepass #pgp #writers #QubesOS #BSD #MX #RHL #zfs #btrfs Not an "expert". #noindex :fedora::ubuntu: :archlinux:​ ​ :tor::tux: :freebsd:​ :protonmail :​:python:​ #OSINT #QubesOS OK to re-toot on Mastodon/attribution is automatic to the OP. #ceasefirenow

I really like the idea of a #noml meta tag in addition to #noindex nofollow, etc.

I think there could be a way added in #robots.txt as well, but honestly, robots.txt was always a solution meant to minimize the amount/scope of pages a robot tries to fetch, whereas a meta-tag / x-header solution is better when you want some but not all uses of page content (i.e. the robot still ought to fetch the page) - so I'm not in a rush to modify robots.txt's spec

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MastodonMojeek (@Mojeek@mastodon.social)"A voluntary code of practice, where you can flag your wishes to search engines using robots.txt, has largely worked, but what can be done in the age of generative AI? We have a proposal, which we ask you to consider and support below. But first we’ll explain how it would work." https://blog.mojeek.com/2023/10/noml-proposal-and-open-letter.html