@w_b #NotAGirl, and you can see all of them at bunnyalice.com or ##CAPTCHAlice here 🩷

@_elena

@delcj attached.

Went thrifting with my partner yesterday, and found a perfect cup for Fedi.

#GoodMeowning

@ni seriously. No one should have to share a space with that many incels at one time.

God, that bus must reek of Axe and butt crust 🫢

@deirdresm

@deirdresm someone needs to stop the bus and kick that Black woman off...so the bus can be safely driven into a lake without causing any loss.

(and then get her a taxi to her destination so she's not late)

#FuckNazis

@May yay! Have fun and be extra gay for me please

@Adrenochrome #ThingsThatAreOnlyAdorableBecauseTheyreTiny

@GhostOnTheHalfShell

@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.