• @[email protected]
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    31 year ago

    Wait, if I understand it right, Mastodon can’t defederated with an instance? As in, I don’t want to provide my content for the instance?

    Lemmy can do that, right? Because if not, then the whole idea is just a goldmine of free content to milk for corporations, that they don’t even have to pay for hosting. And I’m extremely against giving someone a way how to monetize my content under such circumstances. (Aside from the analog hole, you can’t stop bots scraping it, but that’s at least some effort they have to do…)

    • eroc1990
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      31 year ago

      What’s to stop that corporation from using private browsing to scrape that content anyway? Sure they don’t have as much of a way to identify and link their ad profiles to other users, but if it’s pure content they’re after, unless a home server is completely siloed from the rest of the world and aggressively defends against that kind of scraping activity, that can’t be stopped. That’s the argument the Mastodon devs made.