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And then Joan Mastodon told her knights to rest. We have slain the searchers and the scrapers, she said, we have liberated the hashtags. The great Algo has retreated. Rest now. And then toot, toot about nothing and everything, irreverent and free as only my knights can be. And the knights raised their goblets and cheered their Lady Joan, and they rested, and when they had rested the Great Tooting began for twenty days and twenty nights.

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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

"I used to be just like you before I started going to therapy"

@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...
linktr.ee/the_anastasia

@Alice

Mostly one-liners at my own expense

Awkward AF

Midwest to West Coast

Photos on Pixelfed: @Alice

Please direct any and all complaints to the anthropomorphic hotdog that manages this account.

@ElleGray

researcher writer walker of forests swimmer of oceans here for the funny and the interesting

ko-fi.com/elleg

#space #humor #humour #literature #reading #art #dance #science #oceans #whales #ChildrensRights #adventure #travel #surfing #novels #poetry

@LikeItOrLumpIt

✨BRAIN GLITTER ZOMBIE✨SEROTONYMPH✨Your Source for StupiToots© ✨ #NewYork 🗽 #Syracuse Alt Txt avatar is a gif of a smiling Caucasian woman with light long hair, in a Halloween theme orange and black frame, graveyard, and black cat. Alt Text Header: I "heart" New York sign at Geneva New York Oct 2023 #nosearch #noindex

🚫 Sober Ally--Not into recreational drugs or alcohol 🚫

**Pink Sparkle**

@LRRRonEarth

I AM LRRR, FUTURE CONQUEROR OF YOUR PLANET. STRANDED IN AMERICA SINCE 2023. OMICRON MALE. KEYNOTE SPEAKER. PUBLIC INTELLECTUAL. HE/HIM. TRAHR. BLM. HEEL. BELOVED MICRO-CELEBRITY. CONNECTIONS TO FUTURAMA CANON ARE TENUOUS AT BEST. I DO ALL-CAPS AND CARTOON VIOLENCE AND YOU CANNOT CHANGE ME. I AM UNHINGED.

NOT AN OFFICIAL ACCOUNT FOR ANYTHING. DON'T LISTEN TO ME.

TOOTS POSTED BY MY HUMAN GHOSTWRITER AGAINST HIS WILL.

I'M LIKE IF CALVIN'S DAD HAD A BLOODTHIRSTY IMAGINARY ALIEN MONSTER HOBBES.

@Kierkegaanks

Normalize calling Sam Altman ai-nāṣir.

@MAJ1

Member of the Great Migration of Nov 2022

Retired mainframe storage manager, channel Marvin the Paranoid android, like cats, tech, open world games,nature.

Very amateur scientist /astronomer / climatologist.
Wide musical tastes, scouse sense of humour.
Absolutely no time for “alternative” facts.
Nullifidian

justmytoots.com/@MaJ1@beige.pa

Avatar: A red squirrel wearing elven style armour with a winged helmet & a sword.
Banner: Small computer room showing IBM ES/9000 mainframe

@healyn

Hi! I'm healyn. You may remember me from such instances as mastodon.social

He/Him

@BlippyTheWonderSlug

Blippy, a suspiciously majestic Sea Slug of some sort, was found in a Nuclear/Biological waste disposal facility near Oldenburg, Germany sometime in 1959.

⚠️ 👉 Potty mouth. 👈 ⚠️

Deutscher, aber sprecht kaum Deutsch.

--

#Bassist #EveryDayIsCaturday #Audrey #PoultryCoroner #RandomShoes #BongSignal #GangsOfNovember #TheArtOfShitposting

Cats: #YoshiOneEye #EmmaPeel #PussyGalore #HarleyQuinn
#NotOurCat: #Humba #Zardoz #Franz

@tobestewart

Somethng s mssng from your lfe
buymeacoffee.com/tobyartste1

@TheBreadmonkey

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.

🌱

He/Him

📷 @TheBreadmonkey

Want to buy me a coffee? ko-fi.com/thebreadmonkey

Psst ...wanna see some toots?... justmytoots.com/@TheBreadmonke

justmytoots.comJustMyToots
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What do the "#NoArchive #NoIndex #NoSearch #NoBridge" hashtags do?
These are all special hashtags intended to control the behavior of certain 3rd party tools that integrate with fedi.

- NoArchive requests that the profile and posts should not be included by fedi archive services.
- NoIndex and NoSearch request that the profile and posts should not be indexed by any cross-fedi full-text search applications.
- NoBridge requests that the profile and posts be excluded from any cross-network bridges, like bots that mirror posts between Fedi and BlueSky.

These all come with a caveat, which is that only
good-faith actors will respect them. You are welcome and encouraged to include them on your own profile, if desired, but be aware that some shady services will just ignore the hashtags.

#Introduction

Hello, my name is Cal, and I pretend to be a robot cat on the Internet. As far as you know, I'm *just* pretending.

I joined at the recommendation of LRR so everything that happens here is entirely their fault. /joke

Some hashtags to make me more searchable: #Yorkshire #ScienceWitch #Furry #Technophile #RetroGaming #Nintendo2DS #Nintendo3DS #PS2 #PS3 #RSD #TransRights #NotOnDiscord #AutoDelete #NoArchive #NoIndex #NoSearch #NoAI #NoBridge #NoScrape #NoQuote

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For example, these discussions on FEP c118 here:

https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/fep-c118-content-licensing-support/2903/14__

# FEP-c118: Content licensing support
## Summary
Currently, popular Fediverse software does very little to establish the legal status of posts. Controversy over indexing and scraping the Fediverse is common. The hope is that providing a legal framework to express the desires of users as to how their content may be re-used might bring order to this debate.
https://codeberg.org/fediverse/fep/src/branch/main/feps/fep-c118.md

4. If you don't want your posts being easily accessible on the instances you federate with, why not make the posts followers only in the first place? I'd love to know the history behind folks thinking that public posting and a
#noindex or #noarchive hashtag was ever sufficient on the #Fediverse.

Folks with the institutional memory of these things, please step up and tell the history. Every admin has the right to defederate from whoever they want, but to do so on the basis of a
#Mastoverse -centric denialism & rewriting of the history of search & indexing on the Fediverse should be called out.

Respecting a federated post's no-index settings or even account level settings would be really cool but is currently impossible across the
#Fediverse.

Oh and wait until I tell you about how
#ContentWarnings aren't reliably reproducible across the fediverse either. Another day..

#fullsearch #Universeodon #ActivityPub #Misskey #Calckey, #Foundkey #Pleroma #Akkoma #Friendica #Hubzilla #Streams #FEP #FediverseSafety #FediblockMeta #meta #FediblockDiscussion #nosearch #fullTextSearch
SocialHub · FEP-c118: Content licensing supportThis is a (quite) question of #openweb vs #closedweb The Fediverse worked/s because it is #4opens at a protocol and #UX implementation, it’s a #openweb project, this is a good thing. Yes, the is a history of well worded “white lies” about privacy and safety that have helped to change social behavers. A kinda not bad thing. One of the #4opens is #opendata, every post has a URL, the is no encryption at all, in this all “privacy” is based on trust, a good thing. I agree with the need for #openli...

Some thoughts about #fullsearch of federated-with instances. 🧵 1/2

1. Conflating any ill will you have with Supernovae at
#Universeodon, with the issue of search indexing on the Fediverse to justify your fediblock won't help resolve the issues around search.

2. It isn't global search. While we shout, lock down, and don't participate in building the additions to our protocols that the
#Fediverse needs, we've been letting #Google index the Fediverse. It's already searchable and Google's new Perspectives tab is going to make it even easier. Maybe we could fight that rather than keep thinking it doesn't exist and continuing to write ineffective Facebook-viral style "I do not give permission..." copypasta?

3. The
#Fediverse does not respect your do-not-index-my-posts flag. It never has. It can't. It's not supported by the #Mastodon API, as @supakaity@blahaj.zone explains, and nor is it supported at #ActivityPub level and will need to be added into a new AP protocol.

Every instance server from the #Misskey (#Calckey, #Foundkey), #Pleroma (#Akkoma), and #Friendica (#Hubzilla, #Streams) lineages has full search of federated-with instances as default. All these services actually pre-date the creation of Mastodon in 2016 you can read @Polychrome@poly.cyber.city 's post for their commentary on such. Fediblock all of them to create your very own #Mastoverse or you could become part of building a better, safer, Fediverse? Perhaps through participating in the Fediverse Enhancement Proposals? #FEP


#FediblockMeta #meta #FediblockDiscussion #nosearch #fullTextSearch #FediverseSafety

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This issue came up a few months ago, when I linked my profile to justmytoots.com. This made my toots visible in Google (as they are again). The person behind it acted decently and justmytoots.com now respects #NoSearch.
But there's lots of others that don't. As you can see.