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41% of fediverse instances have blocked threads so far!!! (tech.lgbt)
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[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

They federate because it’s the most efficient way to scrape fediverse instances and build profiles on fediverse users.

That's not true. Quiet scraping is much easier to implement than integrating AP into your platform.