rottenwheel on Nostr: Signal has now moved away from offering an open knowledge base to only allowing ...
Signal has now moved away from offering an open knowledge base to only allowing Google Search to index its site while pissing off the hundreds of alternative search engines (https://github.com/bkil/freedom-fighters/blob/master/en/service/web-search.md). I guess this was a naive attempt at foiling scrapist bots operated by commercial dissociated press text generators which probably don't even follow the robot exclusion standard anyway.
https://community.signalusers.org/robots.txt
```
User-agent: googlebot
Allow: /
Disallow: /uploads/*
User-agent: *
Disallow: /
```
https://community.signalusers.org/robots.txt
```
User-agent: googlebot
Allow: /
Disallow: /uploads/*
User-agent: *
Disallow: /
```