#noindex

My elementary school teachers: If you aren't sure where to find something in a book, you can look in the table of contents or the index.

Fediverse: Art Not Content and #NoIndex

@AccidentalHaiku Your bot found and boosted my post that used no hashtags, meaning it had to scrape and process text. I also have had #NoIndex and #NoBot in my profile for years now. Does this bot intentionally disregard the filter flags or is this an oversight?

Please correct this to respect the flags some of us use to prevent this kind of data capture.

Would you prefer that YOU ARE HIDDEN on the Fediverse?

That nobody (new) ever follows you?

That nobody (new) ever sees your posts?

I KNOW THIS QUESTION SEEMS WEIRD, BUT — THERE IS A SMALL GROUP THAT IS CURRENTLY ARGUING MOST PEOPLE ON THE FEDIVERSE WANT TO BE HIDDEN IN THIS WAY

They don't represent me. And I don't think they should (even implicitly) speak for me

IF YOU DON'T WANT TO BE HIDDEN LIKE THIS — PLEASE VOTE "NO"

Please boost for reach.

#Discoverable #Fediverse #Mastodon #NoIndex

These should be turned-on by default:

https://mastodon.social/settings/privacy

#Discoverable #Fediverse #Mastodon #NoIndex

@lclarke522

@donni

Chicago comedian in real life, Internet poster in posting. Proudly hatless. Suspicious of most squirrels. Only wrestles sea cows seasonally

@batkaren

my mom fucked a bat

@HadasWeiss

dm “thanks for the follow” and i’ll unfollow, only sayin this once

no rude posts

"I used to be just like you before I started going to therapy"

@Livingmarble

Still in that awkward pre-ghost phase
Writer/Editor at The Beaverton
Vancouver, Canada
I'm mostly on Bluesky

@Gogs

Your Occasional Adequacy

Very much just saying things, really.


All my posts …. oh, OK then (but we’re discussing this terminology at some point), ‘toots’: https://justmytoots.com/@gogs@mas.to

@partnumber2

A small intro: I’m someone of no importance.
I’m not frightened of dying. What scares me is NOT dying.

Survived cancer and various other things/people that have tried to kill me.
If it ain’t Pompey, politics or nonsense I ain’t interested
Dum vivimus, vivamus

@VeryBadLlama

Writer, comedian, illustrator, and international woman of mystery. Sworn enemy of the Swedish Yule Goat.

@the_anastasia
That girl...you know the one...
linktr.ee/the_anastasia

@Alice

Mostly one-liners at my own expense

Awkward AF

Midwest to West Coast

Photos on Pixelfed: @Alice

Please direct any and all complaints to the anthropomorphic hotdog that manages this account.

@ElleGray

researcher writer walker of forests swimmer of oceans here for the funny and the interesting

https://ko-fi.com/elleg

#space #humor #humour #literature #reading #art #dance #science #oceans #whales #ChildrensRights #adventure #travel #surfing #novels #poetry

@LikeItOrLumpIt

BRAIN GLITTER ZOMBIESEROTONYMPHYour Source for StupiToots© #NewYork #Syracuse Alt Txt avatar is a gif of a smiling Caucasian woman with light long hair, in a Halloween theme orange and black frame, graveyard, and black cat. Alt Text Header: I "heart" New York sign at Geneva New York Oct 2023 #nosearch #noindex

Sober Ally--Not into recreational drugs or alcohol

**Pink Sparkle**

@LRRRonEarth

I AM LRRR, FUTURE CONQUEROR OF YOUR PLANET. STRANDED IN AMERICA SINCE 2023. OMICRON MALE. KEYNOTE SPEAKER. PUBLIC INTELLECTUAL. HE/HIM. TRAHR. BLM. HEEL. BELOVED MICRO-CELEBRITY. CONNECTIONS TO FUTURAMA CANON ARE TENUOUS AT BEST. I DO ALL-CAPS AND CARTOON VIOLENCE AND YOU CANNOT CHANGE ME. I AM UNHINGED.

NOT AN OFFICIAL ACCOUNT FOR ANYTHING. DON'T LISTEN TO ME.

TOOTS POSTED BY MY HUMAN GHOSTWRITER AGAINST HIS WILL.

I'M LIKE IF CALVIN'S DAD HAD A BLOODTHIRSTY IMAGINARY ALIEN MONSTER HOBBES.

@Kierkegaanks

Normalize calling Sam Altman ai-nāṣir.

@MAJ1

Member of the Great Migration of Nov 2022

Retired mainframe storage manager, channel Marvin the Paranoid android, like cats, tech, open world games,nature.

Very amateur scientist /astronomer / climatologist.
Wide musical tastes, scouse sense of humour.
Absolutely no time for “alternative” facts.
Nullifidian

https://justmytoots.com/@MaJ1@beige.party

Avatar: A red squirrel wearing elven style armour with a winged helmet & a sword.
Banner: Small computer room showing IBM ES/9000 mainframe

@healyn

Hi! I'm healyn. You may remember me from such instances as mastodon.social

He/Him

@BlippyTheWonderSlug

Blippy, a suspiciously majestic Sea Slug of some sort, was found in a Nuclear/Biological waste disposal facility near Oldenburg, Germany sometime in 1959.

Potty mouth.

Deutscher, aber sprecht kaum Deutsch.

--

#Bassist #EveryDayIsCaturday #Audrey #PoultryCoroner #RandomShoes #BongSignal #GangsOfNovember #TheArtOfShitposting

Cats: #YoshiOneEye #EmmaPeel #PussyGalore #HarleyQuinn
#NotOurCat: #Humba #Zardoz #Franz

@tobestewart

Somethng s mssng from your lfe
https://www.buymeacoffee.com/tobyartste1

@TheBreadmonkey

Hi, I'm Ben.

I'm a heady mix of a serious responsible grown up man and a stupid man-baby idiot with delusions of grandeur.

I'm a big nerd, really into music, cooking, books, films and scifi. I hate/love running and generally love being outdoors.

He/Him

@TheBreadmonkey

Want to buy me a coffee? https://ko-fi.com/thebreadmonkey

Psst ...wanna see some toots?... https://justmytoots.com/@TheBreadmonkey@beige.party

#fedi22

@maxleibman

Solutions architect (before that, in project management). Maker of dad jokes. Actual dad.

Recently migrated from mastodon.social. Still figuring out who I'm going to be on Beige.

@Nickiquote

Bad jokes, worse opinions. Tonally all over the place. Irish (North), living in England. Leftist provincial dad. He/him.

The Toots, the whole Toots and nothing but the Toots: https://justmytoots.com/@Nickiquote@mstdn.social

Avi: himself, default white bloke in glasses, b&w. Header: drawing of Aretha Franklin’s eyes staring out over sunglasses.

#NoSearch #NoIndex #NoBot #NoBridge #NoThreads #NoMaven #NoStarterPacks

What effect these tags have when you put them in bio? I saw some people have it

#askfedi #askfediverse #askmastodon

@atomicpoet @dansup we should be building tools to create better experiences, not griping about #noindex #nobridge and the sort. There will always be people not following the rules. If you care about privacy, don't post PII, and don't post anything you wouldn't mind falling into the hands of big tech. In the age of LLMs they will do everything they can to circumvent any protection implemented by fedi devs and they have way more resources. UX > Fedi social norms 100% of the time IMO.

@preslavrachev another point: do you honour the #noindex tag on user profiles?

@ken_fallon @hpr @methoddan @Edent @webmink @perloid @garythewilliams

The chat about "grabbing comments" at the start is quite interesting. I don't know if you know already, but it is common for people who don't want their comments archived to have #noarchive (or #noindex, or #norobots) in their bio. Nothing is a surefire protection, since what they want is not very coherent (they kind of want you to read their mind) - but accounting for that tag at least gives people an opt-out.

#tfw when one has #noindex #nofollow #nobot on one's profile yet is followed by an entity seeking to be a conduit or medium between what I post and its nonMastodon readership. I post only for direct #fediverse accounts, and 0.00003% of them find the occasional post to be of use.

@akurilov@mastodon.social @mjdxp@labyrinth.zone @rail_@bark.lgbt @mawhrin@circumstances.run My instance is #noindex and #norobot. Ive deleted all my information off of big tech ages ago and self host Everything I use. What about people like me?

#Privacy for your #Fediverse account?

Add these privacy notes (copy and paste selected text to your bio)

"No consent is given to scrape or store any of my data, by Commercial company or individual, for any commercial purpose or otherwise."

#NoIndex #NoSearch #NoBot #NoBridge #CveCrowdDeny
(cvecrowd.com scraper)

NO #AI #DataScraping
NO #BigTech
NO #Search #SearchEngines

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It's something of a defence and prevention.

ADMINS CONSIDER THIS:
Add a footer section to say on your instance template 9under compose box):

"No consent given to scrape any data from this server for any commercial purpose"

@Anachron

On my Profile page:

#NoSearch #NoIndex #NoBot #NoBridge

It's a start, anyway...

What do the "#NoArchive #NoIndex #NoSearch #NoBridge" hashtags do?
These are all special hashtags intended to control the behavior of certain 3rd party tools that integrate with fedi.

- NoArchive requests that the profile and posts should not be included by fedi archive services.
- NoIndex and NoSearch request that the profile and posts should not be indexed by any cross-fedi full-text search applications.
- NoBridge requests that the profile and posts be excluded from any cross-network bridges, like bots that mirror posts between Fedi and BlueSky.

These all come with a caveat, which is that only good-faith actors will respect them. You are welcome and encouraged to include them on your own profile, if desired, but be aware that some shady services will just ignore the hashtags.

Is there a guide somewhere to the informal standards folks in the Fediverse use to indicate “don’t index content from my account”, “don’t interact with me if you’re a bot”, etc?

I see:

1. Larger Mastodon instances generally manage their robots.txt carefully
2. Informal profile hashtags, including #nobot, #noindex, and #nofollow. I have not found an exhaustive list or formal description of these.

Can anyone point me in the right direction? What other standards are there?