I used to post a lot of comments on Reddit, but never anywhere else.

I posted more on mastodon than anywhere else

Bet you it’s a paid ad spot. Node based editors are nothing new

I feel heard

Can’t they just scrape the data anyway?

This is what I mean.

Meta is going to get public data one way or another. It’s not hard to scrape the fediverse normally.

Like all defederating them does is make the fediverse more closed off, not less

You can’t even really block scrapers without actually locking down a site. You can just ask nice bots (like googles crawler) to not index you.

See that’s a good point. Facebook is going to get fediverse data regardless of defederating them. Most of this stuff is public anyway.

But displaying fediverse content next to ads w/o consent is kinda gross

Well yeah he could, but he can’t retroactively apply that license change, so the Linux foundation would just keep rolling on with their own fork.

FWIW the maga crowd is obviously down with being part of a cult of personality. It’s easy to stand in front of them, say edgy shit, and be showered with praise.

Honestly it doesn’t even matter. If meta really cared about fediverse data, they’d set up their own unnamed server, make a bot account that just follows and subscribes to as much as it can. Nobody would know to block it, it’d just look like another user.

I was talking about Linux specifically because it’s under the GPL license. Threads isn’t open source at all afaik, so it doesn’t really apply