@heckinteagan *sigh*

@ricci I understand that that's the case (that tags.pub is block-preserving), so I assume the reason I was still visible at https://tags.pub/profile/AlicePics this morning (despite both me and my instance blocking tags.pub days ago) must have been due to caching or something then?

@toothpaste_sandwich

@ricci sure 🩷 I feel like I was in a particularly good intersection¹ to be able to bring what I perceived as a gross misuse of technology on Fedi into the light.

¹ Being a sexworker and ex-tech executive, who uses specific hashtags containing my name, with a large reach and a lot of community goodwill on Fedi—who also had their name and nudes broadcast by this bot service.

@bitbraindev strong agree.

I had a Twitter account, and used to be a YouTuber, and I have way smaller reach here, but folx here are *way* more engaged in an absolutely wonderful way that I never experienced in other places.

I'd trade volume and reach for authenticity and community any day

@matty

@ricci I think it's expected behavior that my posts should be visible from instances we're federated with, but that new "services" that do something different or unexpected should *always* be *explicitly* opt-in.

The difference is that Evan's "service" created new accounts for all of these hashtags and used them to boost the posts in what came across as a very creepy, entitled, and nonconsensual way.

I don't want a bot called AlicePics on some other server, happily spending its life boosting only naked photos of me. That's creepy.

@toothpaste_sandwich several people DMd me to say that he had been working to get Threads into Fedi, and his projects list those socials for contacts.

I can understand the justification for (though I strongly disagree with) having accounts on X, Threads, BlueSky, or Facebook—they're huge, and a lot of people are still (unfortunately) there.

But I considered Threads move to "participate" in Fedi a hostile act by a company known for violating privacy and for removing protections against hate speech from their platform.

@Shdwdrgn yeah, "exposure" is a currency I've been offered before.

@bitbraindev totally.

And this "I found it online, so it's fair game" mentality is something I fight against constantly with porn accounts who steal from sexworkers and repost it with the disclaimer "DM me to take your photos down".

It's like "no, asshole, you DM *me* if you want to use my work".

@matty

@ricci I have a Mastodon.social account, and I share (some of) my posts there, so yes.

I do have them limited (and I screen follow requests from there) though, because like 80% of attacks I get come from Mastodon.social.

@bitbraindev after my public fight with Evan, my instances (and personal accounts) blocked all his domains and his account.

Yet, my stuff was still there on his site today, until I called it out and it appears he removed it.

Blocking seems like a good first step.

@toothpaste_sandwich you can see the whole ordeal here: https://lgbtqia.space/@alice/116825829843438277

The bottom line was that @evan@cosocial.ca assumed consent to slurp up my work (in this case a personal hashtag I use for my nude photos...and my posts containing said photos) and share it in a different context.

Also, I have discoverability settings turned off for sites outside of Fedi (and my instance actively blocks domains like X, Threads, Facebook, and BlueSky)—which Evan seems to be in bed with. So when his site was collecting and sharing my naked body with search engines (without asking), that was a gross violation of my consent.

@NathanMurdock sigh. Why do we still court these toxic mega-corps? They're abusive relationships, and will always tend towards the enshittification of user experience in search of more profitability.

It's like setting up Flock cameras in your hippie commune.

@NathanMurdock being forced into "followers-only" posting by someone else's lack of boundaries is a shitty user experience, and likely to be the eventual death of queer and BIPoC Fedi if we let it slide.

@AngelicAura that would be lovely.

I wonder how many other Fedifolx would like their stuff removed? My guess is a lot.

He could've headed this off by asking first.

Hey, Evan, this shit isn't okay. You and your bots don't have permission to share my communities outside of Fedi (or at all).

Again, I didn't even know you were doing this, because you *didn't ask*—you just assumed you had the right.

I know I blocked you and defederated all your projects already, so maybe one of your friends or bots can let you know you should delete these (and any other @alice, @AltAfterDark, @alice_watson@infosec.exchange, @alice@masto.thefword.club, and @alice_watson@mastodon.social posts).

#ConsentMatters #NoBots #NoTagsPub

@DJGummikuh it's a bad solution that will be abused by bad actors to harm vulnerable people, and it takes control of my content (in this case, personal hashtags and photos of my naked body) out of my control.

@DJGummikuh we already have opt-in solutions for that. I'm registered with like a dozen of my most-used hashtags on multiple discoverability services.

But I chose those.

I chose to be listed as someone who talks about data privacy, LGBTQ topics, etc.

No one assumed I'd be okay with being listed there.

@anyia I use "please don't dogpile" as a shorthand for "please don't be shitty to this person just because I'm calling them out for some behavior". It doesn't preclude things like challenging them, agreeing (or disagreeing) with things I've said, boosting, etc.

Just please be kind to folx—even if you think their position is bad.

My one exception to this is the paradox of tolerance. If they break the social contract, then they're no longer protected by it either.

@DJGummikuh opt-in to new "services" can't be assumed.

Just because I'm, say, open to flirting, doesn't mean that each new person doesn't have to get consent to do it.

@DJGummikuh seems like there should be an efficient way to semi-anonymously broadcast that a server has specific hashtags, and if a user on a single-user instance follows that hashtag, then their instance would know which servers it has to poll to get posts with that tag.