“Oh, hell no!” the user Sketchette wrote. “The beauty of this platform was the NOT sharing of information. Especially gen AI. Don’t you cave now.”
No you fucking idiot, it has a open API, anyone has been able to extract as much data as they want for any purpose and thats good. Same as all the actual fediverse platforms. The thing that should get people worried is that Bluesky has the power to universally make and enforce this and any decision they want because its a shitty centralized platform like any other social media site.
It’s that interoperability of unique instances that makes the Fediverse resistant to scraping. The posts are all public, but crawling it all and categorizing everything is probably like untangling a cotton ball.
Don’t really see the problem. If you pick up the content while web crawling, you will end up with a lot of duplicates, but that’s normal. If you wanted to scrape the Fediverse in particular, you’d know the structure of the data.
Yeah these people are just stupid.
No you fucking idiot, it has a open API, anyone has been able to extract as much data as they want for any purpose and thats good. Same as all the actual fediverse platforms. The thing that should get people worried is that Bluesky has the power to universally make and enforce this and any decision they want because its a shitty centralized platform like any other social media site.
I wonder why Bluesky bothers. The reaction was predictable.
It’s that interoperability of unique instances that makes the Fediverse resistant to scraping. The posts are all public, but crawling it all and categorizing everything is probably like untangling a cotton ball.
Don’t really see the problem. If you pick up the content while web crawling, you will end up with a lot of duplicates, but that’s normal. If you wanted to scrape the Fediverse in particular, you’d know the structure of the data.
Or you can host your own instance and let the servers send you all their data (instances can still defederate)