Vel :determination: on Nostr: "If your posts are public then scraping them is fine" This is such a stupid take and ...
"If your posts are public then scraping them is fine"
This is such a stupid take and I'm tired of hearing it. The point is THE INTENT of the scope. Public does not mean CC0 public domain do what you want. The network replicating posts onto other instances doesn't mean anyone on those instances is allowed to do what they want with it. It means I am posting so that genuine real users on genuine real fediverse instances can see and interact with my thoughts. I am not posting using the public scope so that dickhead tech bros can just gobble my posts up and feed it to AI or index it into a search engine.
We have our timelines hidden on this instance for people who aren't logged in, we have defederated scrapers and manually emailed to opt out of scraping services. The precedent is already there that if you're scraping our data that you're violating our consent.
P.s. this was nearly a very toxic quote boost but I changed my mind at the last minute so that pissbabies don't cry about dog piling. (Pro tip: if you don't want to be dog piled by worse people than me, consider changing the scope of your posts to something other than 'public'. :--) )
This is such a stupid take and I'm tired of hearing it. The point is THE INTENT of the scope. Public does not mean CC0 public domain do what you want. The network replicating posts onto other instances doesn't mean anyone on those instances is allowed to do what they want with it. It means I am posting so that genuine real users on genuine real fediverse instances can see and interact with my thoughts. I am not posting using the public scope so that dickhead tech bros can just gobble my posts up and feed it to AI or index it into a search engine.
We have our timelines hidden on this instance for people who aren't logged in, we have defederated scrapers and manually emailed to opt out of scraping services. The precedent is already there that if you're scraping our data that you're violating our consent.
P.s. this was nearly a very toxic quote boost but I changed my mind at the last minute so that pissbabies don't cry about dog piling. (Pro tip: if you don't want to be dog piled by worse people than me, consider changing the scope of your posts to something other than 'public'. :--) )