@millihertz @onepict I agree, it is preying on people's ignorance. It should be prosecuted, but isn't.

@millihertz @onepict Once I might have agreed with you. FPTP is bad, yes, but the tactic of "X can't win here" is still used to suppress voting and maintain the status quo in places like Australia which has preferential voting.

We can't change the electoral system before the next election, but we can change our voting habits.

@onepict Tactical voting is a blight on democracy.

If we accept a few polls as inevitable and let them scare us into voting against our conscience democracy functions... well, a bit like it has been. Which is to say, it doesn't.

"Party X can't win here" is *always* a lie intended to preserve the status quo. Change comes only by ignoring the polls and campaigning and voting for the world we expect to see.

@julian Thank you for your response and taking this seriously.

Please keep everyone informed. Feeding fediverse data to search engines (even accidentally, as this appears to be) is a breach of trust. How you handle this now is likely to be remembered by the fediverse for a long time.

@deadsuperhero It doesn't matter where the data is coming from, the effect is the same. Scraping done over AP is still scraping. The data (retrieved over AP in this case) is being republished without a "noindex" tag so it is being fed into search engines, including posts on your peertube server.

Hi @julian

I know you're very busy sitting on panels at #Fedicon and talking about how to make the fediverse better. Great.

Unfortunately you are still running a scraper that is feeding search engines.

You've been posting from the con (tip: we use alt text on pictures here on the fediverse), so I know you're online.

You're following me, so you'll have seen my question. @Gargron has spoken to you too I believe.

A day later, no acknowledgement or apology or fix or promise of a fix. Why?

@thisismissem @Gargron @jonny @onepict

That may be the case for some instance admins, but most users are not admins.

The bigger issue is that feeding fediverse toots into search engines violates conventions and the expectations of most users. That's what causes fedi-riots every time some bright spark does it.

@thisismissem @Gargron @jonny @onepict yes, where "best practice" == "if I don't want my instance defederated by the majority of the fediverse"

@thisismissem @Gargron @jonny @onepict

The problem, as Gargron identified, appears to be the lack of a "noindex" tag, which in Fediverse terms is like running an SMTP open relay - a misconfiguration rather than a fault in protocol - but which should not be the default in any software, and which will get you instablocked by the entire Internet.

@Gargron @jonny @onepict Thanks. Yes, I understand. I do hope it is merely an "oversight" as you put it.

Given the number of times we've had to slap down attempts to make the fediverse searchable it's astonishing that a fediverse developer wouldn't take more care. Mistake or not, it's a huge breach of trust.