I’ve said this before, but the fact that pretty much every fedi scraper/bot/etc. developer gets immediately shot with a gun is bad, and seriously misaligns incentives. 
A strange developer that announces their obvious scraper bot (that individuals and instances can block) is bleeding out, while the evil ones with secret bots sip their tea contentedly. People need to be okay with opt-out here, or we just functionally encourage the evil ones. 
Posts on fedi are literally public, in any case. This isn’t a private chat-room, I don’t think it’s reasonable to expect others to treat it that way. 
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