@josephcox I guess you could also pull this together from Mastodon, but Bluesky is going to make readily available data much faster.

@josephcox Couldn't care less what happens there. I can't quite bring myself to block 404, but, dammit, I'm sick of hearing about that service. I just couldn't fucking care less.

@josephcox Necessary consequence of having an open firehose (which they're committed to, as letting others start an interoperating peer network is part of their future-proofing strategy). Researchers on, e.g., abusive behavior love it; they have full access. But there are downsides.

(And scraping the local and network feeds of a few fairly central Mastodon servers would have a similar effect... not the whole fediverse, but with rebroadcasts from network feeds, quite a lot of it.)

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Sounds to me like a back-alley cash deal that can't be traced back to BS... so they can preserve their integrity, maybe even act like the victim.

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https://qntm.org/mmacevedo

@josephcox Technically, most of the Fediverse's content is also in public access, so nothing could stop anyone from scraping and using it for machine learning either, right?

@josephcox I don't trust Bluesky with or without Jack Dorsey. To be blunt, TANSTAAFL!

@josephcox ah yes the "trust us we're a good corporation" method of data protection.

I'm sure it won't end up like Twitter in a few years.