dartos@reddthat.com to AsklemmyEnglish · 1 year agoWhy are fediverse admins blocking out threads?message-squaremessage-square50fedilinkarrow-up181arrow-down128file-text
arrow-up153arrow-down1message-squareWhy are fediverse admins blocking out threads?dartos@reddthat.com to AsklemmyEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square50fedilinkfile-text
minus-squaredartos@reddthat.comOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·1 year agoThis 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.
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.