CassandrichHeads-up for anyone who doesn't want their posts scraped and handed over to an LLM.
https://alpaca.gold/@seldo/116286099611905851
(Quote replaced with link since I was blocked.)
princess pancake 
@dalias that sounds like "blocking" here means not appearing on someone else's feed
The Mastodon API is publicly available and blocking the author of the app or the instance won't do anything
The Mastodon API is publicly available and blocking the author of the app or the instance won't do anything
RE: https://hachyderm.io/@dalias/116289558240910154
@natty In the case of this app, it scrapes from its user's feed, so if you block its user, you will not be in the feed it scrapes.
These techbros want us to believe their "it's silly to have norms if the machine can't enforce them" bullshit. Here, whatever blocking we can do is a statement of our disapproval of their attempts to bypass our consent and reduce the damage, not a surrender of our standing to demand they stop doing things that technical measures fundamentally can't stop.
sarah tonin 
@SRAZKVT @dalias we have a flag for this https://docs.joinmastodon.org/spec/activitypub/#indexable but consent is not real I guess
@natty @SRAZKVT No, we do not have a flag for this. "Indexable" means I want people to be able to find my toots in search results. Not that I want to allow corporations to ingest them into their slop regurgitation machines and mimic my writing style but saying things I didn't and would never say and present those things as "summaries" of what I said.