I sure do wish I could search the wider Fediverse without having a mastodon.social account...

AterNox

@BeAware Isn't that why the search never gets implemented completely? I tried a couple of different tools and end up just moving to different servers looking for folks.

BeAware :fediverse:

@Nox Search is instance based. Every admin can choose to implement it or not and each account has options to limit their discoverability by search.

So those who don't want to be found have MANY options to limit their visibility. Whether that be by locking their account, posting with "unlisted" visibility, posting with "followers only" visibility, or turning off search discovery features.

There's no reason to harass devs of discoverability services because each person can protect themselves.

Since search is instance based, I have to go to mastodon.social to search for content i'm interested in because they're the most federated instance. It's just an annoyance.

My camera shoots fascists

@BeAware

One of the things I have to keep sheepishly explaining to the people I'm fedi-evangelizing is that "it's hard to find people you might know, but don't get discouraged..."

Yeah, that's not a particularly good way to convince people to come here when finding their friends on Blue Sky is apparently pretty easy. I'm not there so I don't know what's different, but I keep convincing people to make accounts here, only for them to quickly go dormant.

I would really like to be able to follow all the activist types I used to follow on Twitter, where I could get live-post updates on things like protests. There is very little of that here that I've been able to find.

Pauliina Lievonen

@Mikal @BeAware As a new user, this is my biggest frustration! There are people I _know_ are on Mastodon, and I can't find them. On bluesky, I just type in their username and there they are.

silverpill

@BeAware Someone already built it, and nobody even noticed: https://aspublic.org (seems to be broken at the moment, though)

I've seen a lot of interesting stuff in fedi, but most of it is not killed, but simply ignored.

@julian

pomstan

@[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] that's @[email protected] 's service

BSD/r000t

@pomstan @julian @silverpill @BeAware GOD DAMN IT FINE I’LL LIMP IT BACK UP TODAY FUUUUUUUUCK

It breaks every time I restart the hypervisor and systems startup scripts just ain’t cutting it

BeAware :fediverse:

@r000t I sure do hope the Fedi mafia dont see it.

[email protected]

@BeAware @rolle Definitely don't go to Signal for privacy, which literally requires phone number (insane), uses Cloudflare which makes you vulnerable to 0-click deanonymization attack, refuses to fix or acknowledge security vulnerabilities, and is centralized (lock-in). Better use SimpleX which has no unique user IDs, no accounts, and protects your meta-data on a very nice level unlike Matrix, Signal and many others

As for Fediverse, I do not know why a PUBLIC platform for SOCIAL media would have anything to do with privacy. Anonymity? Yes. Security? Please do. Privacy? Why? It's social network! I'd certainly love more discoverability features

By the way, what did @rolle do?

BeAware :fediverse:

@catbarking @rolle he created a "firehose" software which basically is a "federated" timeline aggregator from what I understand.

Basically just made it so that you don't have to go to mastodon.social to see a live feed of most Fedi instances.

Not like he was taking people's posts who couldn't stop him from taking them. Just don't post with "public" setting....‍️

Roni Laukkarinen

@BeAware @catbarking

I was relieved to see how @news covered this whole ordeal yesterday. It warms my heart to know there were people who defended me and truly saw me. At the time, it felt like 90% of the Fediverse was against me. I shut the project down to avoid having my private messages flooded with hate.

Public Firehose Project Shutters After Backlash - We Distribute

In the face of public backlash, a Fediverse developer is forced to shut down a hobby project after people misunderstood what it did.

We Distribute (wedistribute.org)

Laxystem

@rolle @BeAware @catbarking @news anyone who does this kind of thing is a bully, no worse than mean school children nor fascist politicians.

david

@BeAware @r000t only a few instances have blocked it

Lin

@BeAware @rolle when he harassed, threatened...?

david

@BeAware

@rolle i think that you should continue this project tbh. you didn't do anything wrong, it's just the fedi mafia getting mad because "it makes it easier for cops to find out about protests" or some <insert bs reason here>, as if they can't find out any of that on twitter anyways?

you really did nothing wrong here. there is no need to apologise, they are just triggered lol https://fedi.reclaim.technology/notice/ApulcnmWpoKrHqTvuK

BeAware :fediverse:

@linchiao @rolle https://fedi.reclaim.technology/notice/ApulcnmWpoKrHqTvuK

BSD/r000t

@david
That's a list of stupid people. That software doesn't federate so blocking it does nothing.
@BeAware

david

@r000t @BeAware so how does it work then? I thought you need an api key to search fedi posts, so doesnt it have to federate?

david

@r000t @BeAware I guess it must use mastodon.social to search posts or something

BeAware :fediverse:

@david @david @r000t probably good to just wait for him to reply.