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pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
So, I watched the whole thing and they mentioned castopod (podcasts) and owncast (live streaming). He also mentioned hashtags to find what you’re looking for. Is there a search engine for across the fediverse? For example, that would be amazing to go there and find hashtags from pixelfed and castopod and owncast even if they don’t communicate with each other. It’s not about instance finding, but about topic finding. That search engine would be the bomb or does it already exist?
Ulrich@feddit.org 2 months ago
pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
While those are great, I meant between the different activity pub apps.
Zak@lemmy.world 2 months ago
It doesn’t exist, and some people get really mad whenever someone tries to make one.
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inconel@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
I mean given the demographic of fedi, ignoring robots.txt or GDPR removal requests warrant negative reaction and many in the list fall in that classification.
Microw@lemm.ee 2 months ago
And others dont fall into that classification, additionally it has been shown that the list’s author does not bother to actually check what is true about “scraping” accusations and just includes whatever accusation gets raised
arotrios@lemmy.world 2 months ago
This is a core issue with ActivityPub, one that I noticed myself when I started working with it. Unless a server is setup to keep a user’s private marked posts completely off the ActivityPub feed, they’re accessible within it to any script that ignores the opt-out request.
My personal example was setting up wordpress to interact with a Mastodon instance, and suddenly finding private conversations published from Mastodon to my wordpress site that weren’t visible to me at all on Mastodon.
Needless to say, that gave me pause about building anything with the protocol until I really understand the access control behind publishing, because even instance owners don’t seem to fully grasp it themselves.