Comment on Bluesky and Mastodon users are having a fight that could shape the next generation of social media
melmi@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 months agoThe microblog side of the fediverse is really hostile to scraping or indexing of any kind. On the one hand, I get the idea of safe spaces and not wanting your data to be public, but then why are you on an instance that federates openly?
It seems to me that anything that’s being federated out by ActivityPub is public by nature. If you don’t want it to be public, you should use a whitelist, or just don’t post it publicly.
Idk, I guess I just don’t get it.
groet@feddit.de 4 months ago
I think it’s about usage rights. People are fine with their post being on their chosen end of the fediverse forever but don’t want corporations and news sites to generate a profit by using the posts. That is independent of federation, federation just makes it easier.