Heads-up for anyone who doesn't want their posts scraped and handed over to an LLM.

[dalias@hachyderm.io]

@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.

[dalias@hachyderm.io]

@natty Sorry maybe I misread what you were saying about "blocking won't do anything". I'll edit not to sound accusatory.

[m3t00@app.wafrn.net]

@SRAZKVT@tech.lgbt @natty@astolfo.social @dalias@hachyderm.io

fedi has contracted from early openedness. last few masto versions have new privacy controls. them follows with blank profiles and zero followers? yeah those are the dumb ones.

[wyatt@soc.megatokyo.moe]

@dalias @lawyersgunsnmoney any reason not to block the entirety of alpaca dot gold? without me having to go to check

[dalias@hachyderm.io]

@wyatt @lawyersgunsnmoney Not really. It's an instance with a single-digit number of users who are in his circle of friends. Your call if you think they deserve to be cut off from lots of fedi by association.

[wyatt@soc.megatokyo.moe]

@dalias @lawyersgunsnmoney there are three users on my instance, two of which are active, and one of that subset is me and the other is much more block-happy than I am

[dexternemrod@troet.cafe]

@dalias

@MHowell

+1

[wyatt@soc.megatokyo.moe]

@dalias @lawyersgunsnmoney hmm, npm founder

not somebody i would want to be a friend of a friend of, probably

[loosf@yiff.life]

@dalias

what a shithead

ah yes of course, wanting privacy and consent to be respected is "being a tedious bastard"

[epd5qrxx@mastodon.online]

@paraw

You can't.

Every instance admin would have to intercept API requests and check the origin if it is the Zeitgeist instance and block them.
But you can also just grab the code and run your own instance.

The vibe-coding author mentioned to add #noindex and #nobots support but based on his messages and reactions this won't happen.

[lisoo@eldritch.cafe]

@Barmaid on est d'accord que la personne + son instance + ses alias et les alias de son mari sont/vont être bloqués ?

[iarfhlaitho@mastodon.ie]

@lumi @dalias understands enough to try to circumvent it.

[lawyersgunsnmoney@mstdn.social]

@wyatt @dalias I haven’t blocked his instance, but nothing prevents him from setting up another account. I may go ahead and block the whole thing.

[davidr@hachyderm.io]

@dalias I like the early revelation that he didn't know (or chose to ignore) the first thing about slurping up data. "huh, never heard of robots.txt"

[roknrol@beige.party]

@dalias @SRAZKVT @natty This should not be difficult to do.

[adingbatponder@fosstodon.org]

@dalias The thread here is SO complex one needs to know a lot to react. Can someone just tell me what this is about.. I am so confused.

[mrgrumpymonkey@mastodon.social]

@dalias Blocked and boosted for those who allow me on their timeline, for some reason.

[effika@mastodon.social]

@dalias never have I wanted to see how many times an account was blocked as badly as I do now

[dalias@hachyderm.io]

@davidr robots.txt would make no difference. He's not scraping your posts from your instance. He's scraping the ones that federated to his/his-user's instance via the feed there.

[icewolf@masto.brightfur.net]

@dalias Fucking yikes.

And that implies _anyone_ can scrape your posts and hand them right to an LLM and you'd never know

This is just so gross.

(I mean obviously they COULD either way but this means well-meaning non-assholes could if they don't. like. think about what they're doing.)