CIRCLE WITH A DOT

@player_03

Whatevs...

I've been ID'd as a "Known Bad Actor" for my unpopular opinions so I'm out

Typical open-minded Fediverse

cc @apps

@apps

[now waiting for that years-old

"Well you know everything on the Internet is public anyway..."

Which explains nothing because the vast majority of people both lack the desire to be indexed and the technical knowledge to do it themselves

But it was always the excuse that was given two-three-four years ago]

@apps

[here we go again]

"Only public posts from consenting users are indexed. We respect every signal available."

But there is the entire problem in a nutshell:

What about people who have never heard of Holos Discovery and who never will unless they receive a Follow request?

Allegedly only consenting users are indexed

I have #NoIndex #Nobot set on my profile and I have to approve Follows

But during the convo I had earlier that person said:

"Your content has been removed from our index and you won't be contacted again."

To which I replied:

"So you've --> already <-- "scraped my content" without my knowledge or permission..."

I then asked about second-party scraping -- someone I Follow and interact with has been "Discovered" and Indexed -- and thus my content has been indexed too, without my knowledge or consent

At that, they never returned to answer

The core point is, historically a lot of people have not wanted to found, scraped, and indexed for unknown third-party use

Here we go again...

@briankrebs

Looks like #CBP / #ICE is out in Italy doing a little advance work:

"US to send ICE agents to Winter Olympics, prompting Italian anger"

"The governor of Lombardy region, Attilio Fontana, sought to calm the situation, suggesting that ICE agents would be deployed in Italy to protect US Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio.Olympics, prompting Italian anger"

Which should be the work of the US Secret Service, last time I heard...

Here: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5y29xzjdzvo