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1 year ago@ad_on_is The problem you’re hitting is that the #clearnet / #Internet in general weren’t adequately designed to handle malicious #infrastructure operators.
“The 'net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it” was a comment about #Usenet, a #federated / #P2P system with gossiped (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gossip_protocol) message exchange which wasn’t particularly picky about its transport layer (indeed you could load a spool on a floppy and mail it), not the internet.
@Ilikecheese It’s necessary for cross-referencing/searchability and it is largely a hack around Mastodon’s flaws yes.
At the protocol level, it should be entirely possible to add the tags directly to the metadata (in fact Mastodon *does that* at the processing step prior to sending along the post) and *not* include them in the post.
Predictably Mastodon doesn’t expose that to its users because fuck the users, I guess.