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Threads and the Fediverse | Kev Quirk (kevquirk.com)
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[–] bitwise@kbin.social 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I'm worried that what they'll do is just set up hundreds of instances on various domains (not even necessarily *.facebook.com, or similar) in order to connect and scrape. Banning them would require resources and time people just can't dedicate in the way a megacorp can.

[–] GammaGames@beehaw.org 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

If they wanted to do this, they already would be.

[–] bitwise@kbin.social 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Why spend the money up front? That's just bad business. They'll only do it if there's real traction in the rest of the verse blocking their shit.

[–] 0xtero@kbin.social 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Why spend the money up front? That's just bad business.

Yeah agreed. They're building a multi-million dollar social network - why spend all that money up front when they could have just installed small anonymous Pleroma on Raspberry Pi for under 100 bucks if they'd wanted to mine our data.

I don't think fedi is their "target".

[–] datavoid@lemmy.ml 1 points 10 months ago

I don't think fedi is their "target".

I don't think scraping posts is their "target"

FTFY