@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?

@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....‍️

@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.

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

@BeAware @r000t only a few instances have blocked it

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

@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

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

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

@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?

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

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

@david I decided it's not worth the cost. @BeAware

@BeAware

I'm a "tech bro asshole"
https://cathode.church/fedi-scraper-counter.html

@linchiao

@rolle @david and this is why Fedi will continue to go nowhere.

Most devs just don't wanna deal with the mental anguish of ignorant assholes harassing them.

So they just won't and will go back to corporate hellholes.

Fuck the Fedi mafia.

@rolle @linchiao we need a "days since ignorant fucks thought #Fediverse is 'private'" page.

@BeAware Yeah, it's unfortunate. But I will not give in. I will continue building tools. Gotta be careful though.

I know where they come from, because minorities been harrassed for so long. Yet I can't understand why they are doing the exact same thing than their harassers.

I'm not one of those "kill or be killed". My mom told me to always be polite. This is why I quote a 4 time concentration camp holocaust survivor Eddie Jaku so often, he did not even want to punch nazis, he knew hate is a disease and will end both parties. @david

@rolle @david it's just mind blowing to me that they don't realize that the technology is built directly into Fediverse to protect themselves from being seen on public timelines...just don't post publicly!

Like...we have privacy options for a reason!‍️

Do they not know how to post with an "unlisted" or "followers only" setting? Maybe there needs to be a tutorial.

I never thought something so easy would need a tutorial....yet....here we are?

@BeAware @rolle @linchiao wouldn't break like 5 if that

@BeAware @rolle i mean, there must be some way of converting private posts to public because ryona.agency has an mrf that does that .
I can understand the concern with that if someone was to use such code in their fedi scraper.

my opinion is basically if it's not meant to be public but you make it public then it's wrong.

i think fedi scrapers if its public posts are fine. I get the concern over AI that some ppl might have tho, but it does seem kinda inevitable. there are AI ppl on fedi, so it's kinda unavoidable tbh