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There are aspects of the wider fediverse culture that is ignored on lemmy, and thankfully its lack of interoperability has helped it avoid trouble (for now). I’m really not sure how to explain to you how it could be used for harassment as it requires a bit of detailed background to how the wider fediverse functions and its history and I don’t really know if it would convince you if I did explain it in enough detail. Just because data is publicly scrape-able doesn’t mean it’s acceptable to do so.

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Nerd02@lemmy.basedcount.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Well of course I can’t guarantee that I would be convinced, even after hearing that but explanation aside

Just because data is publicly scrape-able doesn’t mean it’s acceptable to do so.

Isn’t it? If, an instance admin, has the possibility of hiding some data to the public and refuses to do so, it’s either:

Because they are fine with the public accessing it

Because they are ignorant and unaware of such a feature, which I honestly don’t think is an acceptable excuse (after all users have entrusted this person with their data, ffs)

At the end of the day what I am doing is nothing more than what any user could do by checking the “Moderated servers” section of the about page of any Mastodon instance.

I’m sorry but I’m really am not seeing the logic behind your point.
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- gabe@literature.cafe ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Do you know what kiwifarms is? Just curious.
  
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  - Nerd02@lemmy.basedcount.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    I didn’t, up until yesterday night when you mentioned it. Had a quick Google search and read the wikipedia page, holy fuck there’s some sick people out there. But I still fail to see how defed.xyz could help them doxx or otherwise harass people.
    
    I don’t to be the author of software used for harassment, obviously, but I don’t think you could use my tool for that, even if you wanted to.
    
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