DJ Sundog - from the toot-lab
look, we get it - it’s possible to scrape, index, proxy, and otherwise manipulate a huge amount of public-facing data in the fediverse.
that doesn’t mean you should. it’s bad. it violates the authors’ consent in many cases, and frankly it’s rude.
this isn’t your dev sandbox.
DJ Sundog - from the toot-lab
please stop and think before you build software. full stop. any software at all. stop and think "am I even potentially putting others in harm’s way by building this? could this be used maliciously? would this be secure for people to have access to?" and unless you have strong answers, just don’t. don’t build the thing.
DJ Sundog - from the toot-lab
note I called it public-facing. that doesn’t mean public-owning. posts in the fediverse do not suddenly fall into the public domain by any legal mechanism I’ve been made aware of to date.
I post on my server. I choose to federate a subset of my posts to other servers at my discretion. if you abuse my open and trusting format for posting my thoughts publicly by repurposing my posts without my prior authorization I will absolutely do whatever I can to make you stop, also at my discretion.
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