Cassandrich1d ago

Heads-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.)

Show threadCassandrich1d ago
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Show threadprincess pancake ​18h ago
@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
Show threadCassandrich18h ago

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.

Show threadsarah tonin 17h ago

@dalias @natty so you need to block every single user who uses this, and they definitely won't all report it

nice

at least the search engine projects are few and far between and have generally few accounts needed to block, but this is every user which is significantly worse

Show threadCassandrich17h ago
@SRAZKVT @natty Or we just need to get seldo to ragequit fedi again after folks are "so mean to him" fediblocking his instance and IP blocking his bot from being used with accounts on their servers. Then he'll leave us alone and go do that shit just on birdchan 2.0.
Show threadRoknrol
@dalias @SRAZKVT @natty This should not be difficult to do.
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