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Edit:

So it looks like people have taken this post to be me calling to harass the dev, which was completely and utterly uncalled for.

Don't harass people.

Looking further into the project and what it was doing and how it showed up in my system, I'd rephrase my opinion here as "problematic Fedi client" rather than scraper. So I'd like to apologise for that.

Original message:

Looking like we have a new Fedi scraper at contentnation.net, if you're interested in not being a part of that

This entry was edited (1 year ago)
Admin/Owner of ContentNation.net here. It's not a scraper, just an feature incomplete ActivityPub service. It only fetches data if someone uses the web viewer with a known profile name or AP id. If it can fetch "private" data, something is wrong on the server to provide it. It does not do HTML scraping. So just what ActivityPub was designed for. Robots are excluded by robots.txt and nofollow, but some just don't care. So that might be a reason why it seems scraped.