lonkJun 28, 2023

I'm experimenting with aggregating links posted on Mastodon and Bluesky. I extract the links from posts on public server timelines and rank them by popularity and recency: https://linklonk.com/social

I don't link back to Mastodon posts or user profiles to prevent abuse/targeted harassment.

I would love to get feedback from the Mastodon community about the design. Are there any ethical concerns that I'm missing? How could it be improved?

More context: https://linklonk.com/item/7277725441818656768

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Show threadMarcos Kirsch
@lonk too bad about not linking back. It’d be a good way to discover interesting people to follow.
Jun 28, 2023 at 4:26pmWeb
Show threadlonkJun 28, 2023

@kirsch I think the concern with this would that it would enable trolls to find targets for harassment as well. For discoverability it would probably make sense to have an explicit opt in. For example, we could create an account for this purpose that if you follow it then LInkLonk would know that you want to be discoverable in that index.

What do you think?