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@OutOfExileIDR I remember they were the subject of a #fediblock campaign over their non consent scraping of Fediverse accounts.

@Sh4d0w_H34rt
That was my concern, and first thought. They requested to follow me about 12 hours after I posted the first entry on my blog.

@foolishowl @OutOfExileIDR fwiw this doesn't look too bad to me? They're requesting follows as a mechanism for consent IIUC?

@foolishowl @OutOfExileIDR then again, I'm OK with scraping of public posts myself, so I acknowledge I'm more open to this kind of stuff than many.

@flancian @foolishowl @OutOfExileIDR

I agree that a lot of people people should chill out a bit about public content being scraped, but the presumption that being permitted to follow means that people have consented to data harvesting is still pretty gross.

Some of us don't systematically screen follows and operate on the assumption that people are acting on good faith. Saying "follow permission equals consent" signals an environment where we should presume bad faith.

I don't like it.

@dynamic @foolishowl @OutOfExileIDR thank you for sharing, that makes sense! I think a more explicit opt in process, when you have one, makes sense.

For @agora it only interacts with people who follow it *and* use [[wikilinking]]>

@flancian
https://anagora.org/wikilinking