Excited to announce that I will be at #fediforum today speed demo-ing my latest project: an ActivityPub data observatory!
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the bus lane enthusiastreplied to Darius Kazemi last edited by
@darius Hm. Am I reading it right you would be logging that person x made a post with URL y on date z?
that might interfere with some people's want to not have their posts seen off fedi; that info could be used against someone even if they delete it later. "why're you posting while on the clock" fer a basic example.
the "in reply to" field as well might expose the shape of who you talk to in a concerning wayedit: it's clear that I don't get it but will Try again after coffee
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@darius Are you tracking #goblin? https://indieweb.social/@goblin@goblin.band
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@tchambers never heard of it!
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Darius Kazemireplied to the bus lane enthusiast last edited by [email protected]
@t54r4n1 no, I am logging that "some person somewhere but I don't who or where because I threw away that data, made a post with a "URL" field that contains some kind of URL in it but I don't know what because I threw away that data"
I'm not even logging the time something was posted! Just "there is a time field in this and it contains a time but I don't know what time"
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@t54r4n1 like the second screenshot is the literal data I am recording, so like I am recording the word "<date-time>" instead of an actual date and time
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@darius love this, it might even more useful than a test suite!
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Jenniferplusplusreplied to Darius Kazemi last edited by
@darius how do you collect it? Do you just follow a bunch of actors on different software?
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Darius Kazemireplied to Jenniferplusplus last edited by
@jenniferplusplus right now I am subscribing to a public relay. I will probably turn this thing INTO a relay so that if server admins want to donate their data they can consider this a relay that just... doesn't send their data anywhere and instead records its shape
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@django I think this will be really helpful for people writing tests for a test suite! Like it's one thing to write a test suite that tests conformance with a standard, it's another thing to write a test suite that tests conformance with actual software out in the wild
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Darius Kazemireplied to Emelia πΈπ» last edited by
@thisismissem correct, I just scrub the data and throw it away
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Emelia πΈπ»replied to Darius Kazemi last edited by
@darius yeah, I think having a clear privacy policy that shows clearly that you're not storing any personal information and working only through relays should be fine to be opt-out
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Jenniferplusplusreplied to Darius Kazemi last edited by
@darius that seems like a kind of limited sample. It limits you to public messages that even can be sent to a relay. You'll never know what non-public messages look like, or messages from software that doesn't support relays.
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Darius Kazemireplied to Jenniferplusplus last edited by
@jenniferplusplus yes. I have to limit my sample if I'm not going to be a surveillance entity. It's a trade off I'm willing to accept
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@darius this looks cool.