#NoBot #NoIndex #NoBridge

This post is a test of a custom rule for Cloudflare I've been working on, and of my own conspiracy theory.

Forgive me my tinfoil hat: I have long suspected that the use of these tags (above), in fact, results in attracting more attention from crawlers/spiders/bots/whatever; that said automated systems exist which are specifically instructed to look for these tags, and to index any and all pages in which they find them.

If and only if my custom rule blocks a notably higher number of attempts to index this post alone, as compared to any of my other posts individually, I assume my theory is true until otherwise proven.

I will provide an update about this whenever I have one.

#CloudflareTunnel #Cloudflare #Fediverse #SelfHosting #SelfHosted

RE: https://alpaca.gold/@seldo/116286233333862833

In news that surprises nobody, someone who created an app to feed your toots into slop machines was not only unaware of how consent works, they've also never thought what the #NoBot tag on profiles is for, and was completely unaware of the "no index" flag that people can set in their Mastodon settings.

RE: https://mstdn.social/@stux/116289935006488815

This is an interesting issue that we need to address. If a fediverse client implements AI summarization and wholescale sends an entire timeline to an AI, who takes responsibility for that? This is not the first project to do this. The AI certainly isn't respecting `no index` or `#nobot`

Starlink is already exempt from the FCC router ban. Imagine that...

#Starkink #FCC #RouterBan #Corruption #Trump #nobot #Internet #Musk