@lilianedwards @RDBinns @tnhh I haven’t looked too far into this, but one aspect definitely seems to be ignoring robots.txt . The other is that a lot of servers have explicit guidance against scraping, not just an automated response, and my Mastodon server allows me to opt out of Mastodon wide search.
So from a user consent perspective, it seems even more problematic than the already problematic Bluesky Huggingface data set case to me….
the biggest problem, I think, is if they were also scraping followers only posts…
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