It seems there is a big bet on the value of “human to human” interactions on Reddit. Certainly that makes federated communities easy treasure to pirate? Does anything stop bots from web scraping/data-mining everything we say? I often think about contributing to PeerTube instead of Google YouTube but I feel like my content would be scraped by even more nefarious services quite quickly. Edit: Thanks for the feedback. Makes sense. Double edged sword of the internet. Still makes me hesitate to contribute.

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[–] 12 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Exactly right. The positive is that we can also easily defederate from bad actors, but unless you explicitly allowlist everything then that's going to be a losing battle.

Downside of free and open is that it's, well, free and open.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    There are thousands of federated instances, and datamining isnt an obvious bad activity, so realistically, dataminers will fall through the cracks.

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