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Re:Why just blocking Meta's Threads won't be enough by smoldesu on Wednesday July 12, 2023 @02:23PM (#36699370)
What stops them from harvesting Mastodon users' data after they're defederated?
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Re:Why just blocking Meta's Threads won't be enough by ollien on Wednesday July 12, 2023 @02:31PM (#36699508)
I mean, I guess nothing, they could absolutely still scrape data, but that's much more likely to be noticed (rather than sucking in data as part of product functionality), and is a higher barrier to entry.
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