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What are the platforms on the Fediverse doing to prevent data scraping and prevent bots? (piefed.blahaj.zone)
submitted 1 month ago by thesharky@piefed.blahaj.zone to c/fediverse@lemmy.world
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I've noticed that the issues above are becoming increasingly notorious across the entirety of the Fediverse. What's being done to mititage those issues?

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[–] JupiterRowland@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago

You can make content un-scrape-able on Hubzilla. This has always been possible.

However, this requires you to restrict your post to a certain audience as opposed to posting in public. Just about everything outside of Hubzilla, (streams) and Forte will understand your posts as DMs.

If you don't trust ActivityPub-based software, you can go another step further and turn ActivityPub off or refrain from turning it on in the first place. Downside: You can only connect to Hubzilla and (streams). And diaspora*, Friendica and Socialhome if you have diaspora* on. But you can't connect to Lemmy, PieFed, Mastodon etc. anymore.