I have a 3-pound sledge hammer in the garage. It’s not particularly large, but it’s useful for things like crimping connectors onto larger gauge wires.

It’s also dangerous because I often daydream about using it on gadgets that annoy me. I did use it once on an old USB 2.0 hub that failed, which was very cathartic.

@rich_lord looks like a baba yaga stargate

@jbminn @anildash @dansinker @evan I think that’s the philosophy disconnect right now: why not tagging account or post with YESindex or ALLOW instead?

I know it’s not copacetic with decades of permissionless innovation, but that’s the point I think a lot of folks are making

@CobaltVelvet what’s a good card to send on this occasion? Congratulations on your fruitful visit to the cyber clinic?

@kellogh 🤔

@tedivm @thegibson @jakimfett @janl So don't crawl profiles. ActivityPub instances will POST content right to your server with an agreed-to follow request

@tedivm @thegibson @jakimfett @janl Build a bot against the Mastodon API, or build your own ActivityPub server. Accept requests from users to be followed. Follow. Index the messages that roll in as POSTs from other servers. That's what I'm talking about

@tedivm @thegibson @jakimfett @janl In this scenario, the search indexer is itself an explicit actor in the fediverse. That inherits a lot of the consent & privacy conventions that human users follow

I do find it a funny "you're holding it wrong" phenomenon to see folks building content crawlers to go out and fetch data from fediverse servers. The ActivityPub protocol will happily saturate your server with information. Like, just so many incoming POSTs to play with

@tedivm @jakimfett @thegibson @janl Like I just wrote: you can opt into a bot within mastodon itself by following and agreeing to be followed