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Raccoon🏳️‍🌈

Interesting...

I just got a follow request from , with its own detailed and formatted message, and it never occurred to me that that's the sort of thing that supports, though it does make sense.

I'm also a little surprised because my understanding has been that the main reason they are controversial is because they don't get permission to crawl people's profiles, but here they've sent a customized agreement type thing for me to look at...

Even though your account is not locked, the techhub.social staff thought you might want to review follow requests from these accounts manually. awakari (@awakari@activitypub.awakari.com Awakari is a free service that discovers and follows interesting Fediverse publishers on behalf of own users. The service accepts public only messages and filters these to fulfill own user interest o[V [=E Before accepting any publisher's data, Awakari requests to follow them. The acceptance means publisher's explicit consent to process their public messages, like most of other Fediverse servers do. If you don't agree with the following, please don't accept the follow request or remove Awakari from your followers. Contact: awakari@awakari.com Donate: https://awakari.com/donation.html Opt-Out: https://github.com/awakari/.github/blob/master/OPT- OUT.md Privacy: https://awakari.com/privacy.html Source: https://github.com/awakari/int-activitypub Terms: https://awakari.com/tos.html
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@Raccoon @smallcircles
So this is an AI company asking to "process" peoples public posts?

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akurilov

@stickus @Raccoon @smallcircles
There's no AI neither a for-profit company there.

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Raccoon🏳️‍🌈

@akurilov @stickus @smallcircles
That's what I keep thinking, they seem like they're just looking to index things for searching, which is why we've never bothered to block them or go after them before. To be honest, if that's all they want to do, and they're actually going to start asking permission, I'm not only happy about that, I think that will make them a better service because it cuts down on the people that aren't trying to have big public accounts.

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BeAware :fediverse:

@Raccoon they've just started doing that. It's new because we kept exposing them.

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Raccoon🏳️‍🌈

@BeAware
And here I was about to try and pressure them... :V

I was thinking about posting something in the near future to try and get the other servers that haven't blocked them yet to group up and threaten to block them if they didn't start respecting the fact that some servers don't want to be scraped. Personally, it's not an issue here, because my understanding is they are just indexing for searches, and that theoretically means better reach for us: the point of blogging is to say things in public. The issue I had was the block evasion.

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