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@maegul @sam @mastodonmigration @stuart @vruz @snarfed.org @snarfed Ask MySpace about Facebook's bridge. My objection is not addressed to the protocols, but to the ethics. Public posts on Mastodon and on Bluesky are easily scraped. That does not mean that any arsehole can just go ahead and bot-scrape it and pass it on. As a Masto instance, indieweb.social is welcome to receive whatever is not blocked from them, but not to pass it on wholesale beyond the edge of the Fediverse. 3 comments
@maegul @sam @mastodonmigration @stuart @vruz @snarfed.org @snarfed That Bluesky doesn't use ActivityPub is a pretty clear indication that it's "beyond the Fediverse". The fact that I can't block Bluesky but can, and now have blocked, both indieweb and snarfed, is a pretty clear indication of the boundary. That the guy thinks forcing "opt out" on people is acceptable is the clearest indication of all. I'm not opposed to reach, but I'm opposed to this guy's approach. @maegul @winterknell @sam @mastodonmigration @stuart @vruz @snarfed.org @snarfed That bridge is important. Those who ignore history are doomed to repeat it. Back in the early aughts, when Facebook expanded to the public, 'everyone' was on MySpace. It is improbable to organically acquire the users of an established social network (particularly one so liked) if you're walled off. So they created a bridge (bot) connecting users to friends still on MySpace while siphoning users. |
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@winterknell @sam @mastodonmigration @stuart @vruz @snarfed.org @snarfed
I don't know about that bridge.
But my point is that "scraping" and then "passing on beyond the fediverse" aren't necessarily clear or helpful criteria.
If fediverse="uses ActivityPub" then that allows for a lot of stuff including what is effectively "scraping" (eg, kbin is effectively a search engine for masto content AFAIU). Staying "within fediverse" can be pretty arbitrary then.