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1. Fediverse Report (fediversereport@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Feb-2023 01:37:34 JST Fediverse Report

   • Eric Brookfield

   Threadstodon.io is a simple and clean toll to unroll #mastodon threads into an easy-to read format, created by @ericbrookfield

   Works exactly like you expect: give the thread URL, and you get an clean and easy-to-read formatted page of the thread back, that you can also easily share as well.

   Use it at https://threadstodon.io/

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Feb-2023 01:38:53 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Eric Brookfield

     @fediversereport @ericbrookfield Neat! Here’s my alt text thread from earlier:

     https://threadstodon.io/s/stus_DKnW3XLQPrnLHjXPq7e80MoV

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Feb-2023 14:05:22 JST Aral Balkan

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     • yuvipanda
     • Eric Brookfield

     @ericbrookfield 💕

     @yuvipanda

   • Eric Brookfield (ericbrookfield@toot.cafe)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Feb-2023 14:05:23 JST Eric Brookfield

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     • yuvipanda

     @yuvipanda it took a minute but once my brain flipped to “respect the voices of the marginalized before appeasing the masses” I knew a plug pull was best. I think it wouldn’t be too hard to make it a more temporal service that tidied things up for a few hours and then evaporated organically, but not something I can do rn

   • Eric Brookfield (ericbrookfield@toot.cafe)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Feb-2023 14:05:24 JST Eric Brookfield

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     • Camilo Bravo :bass: :drumset:

     @cambraca https://github.com/ericdfields/threadstodon/issues/7 that’s where I arrived

   • yuvipanda (yuvipanda@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Feb-2023 14:05:24 JST yuvipanda

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     • Eric Brookfield

     @ericbrookfield I just want to say I deeply appreciate the way you have handled the negative feedback <3

     Aral Balkan repeated this.
   • Camilo Bravo :bass: :drumset: (cambraca@musicians.today)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Feb-2023 14:05:26 JST Camilo Bravo :bass: :drumset:

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     • Eric Brookfield

     @ericbrookfield I think where people (rightly) have a problem is that it stores posts indefinitely, without explicit opt-in consent from the authors of the posts.

     I believe (but don't quote me on this, I only speak for myself) folks would be fine with it if it only cached stuff in, like, a caching layer and not a database (e.g. Redis, with TTLs).

     Also, I do appreciate it being open-source and respecting noindex/nobot and such.

   • Eric Brookfield (ericbrookfield@toot.cafe)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Feb-2023 14:05:27 JST Eric Brookfield

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     • Camilo Bravo :bass: :drumset:

     @cambraca I wish it was more obvious based on those links. Some of those links are 404 as well.

     Threadstodon offers no discoverability. It’s not even a bot in the assumed sense. It does no action on its own.

     But if enough ppl don’t want it I can take it down. I didn’t publish this to ruin lives. I already got called a tech bro today so my ego’s pretty fragile already.

   • Eric Brookfield (ericbrookfield@toot.cafe)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Feb-2023 14:05:29 JST Eric Brookfield

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     • Larry Garfield

     @Crell @fediversereport idk news to me. Happy to not make the same mistakes of the past. Please share any context that may help.

   • Camilo Bravo :bass: :drumset: (cambraca@musicians.today)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Feb-2023 14:05:29 JST Camilo Bravo :bass: :drumset:

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     • Eric Brookfield

     @ericbrookfield not created by me, but hopefully has enough links to get why this is a problem: https://cathode.church/fedi-scraper-counter.html

   • Larry Garfield (crell@phpc.social)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Feb-2023 14:05:34 JST Larry Garfield

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     • Eric Brookfield

     @fediversereport @ericbrookfield I hate these on Twitter. Given all the hell people have caught for trying to index public posts for search, why is this any different?