I won't be actually LAUNCHING this tool until I've found out how you all would feel about it being opt-out vs opt-in. I will provide a longer blog post for you all to read with details, but in short:

It would be really helpful for general interop on the fedi if this were opt-out. But if people are generally freaked out by having technical details about software data formats being opt-out... I'll make it opt-in.

Quick explanation of the data scrubbing in the attached images

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blaine

@darius nice! The only folks who *I* could imagine insisting on this being opt-in are Oracle's legal team, and they were told in no uncertain terms that this sort of data isn't even *eligible* for opt-out, even in the US of A. 😅

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William Pietri

@darius I'd say it's fine since it's not collecting user data. However, given how much jerks have caused sensitivity here I'd suggest an explanation page that uses some of your own posts as examples, with detailed explanations. And for usability/accessibility reasons, it should be in text, and with much higher contrast. Machine representations look forbidding to non-technical people anyhow, but especially so when dark and hard to read.

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Emelia 👸🏻

@darius oooh, I see, <uri> isn't a placeholder for an actual value, it's just a indicator of the value type

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In [[Flancia]] we'll meet!

@darius very nice, thanks for checking but to me it's super clear this is fine to scrape by default/be opt-out.

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Emelia 👸🏻

@darius given it's just collecting the unique shapes of data, I think it's perfectly fine to be opt-out, since there's no user data at all. (assuming you never store the raw data anywhere)

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:pine: the ☀️ & the 🌑

@darius Hm. Am I reading it right you would be logging that person x made a post with URL y on date z?
that might interfere with some people's want to not have their posts seen off fedi; that info could be used against someone even if they delete it later. "why're you posting while on the clock" fer a basic example.
the "in reply to" field as well might expose the shape of who you talk to in a concerning way

edit: it's clear that I don't get it but will Try again after coffee

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