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   calcifer@hackers.town's status on Monday, 19-Jun-2023 14:08:36 JST calcifer

   Hey fedi admins? Don’t just defederate/block Facebook/Meta. Put some time right now into figuring out what terms of service to have in place that will deny them the right to harvest data. They may not be able to use ActivityPub if you don’t federate, but nothing stops them from trying other means to harvest your users’ data.

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     calcifer@hackers.town's status on Monday, 19-Jun-2023 14:08:38 JST calcifer

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     To be clear here: absolutely consider technical means too. Just understand that they’ll find a way around them, and a violation of TOS at least opens up the door to legal recourse when they do so. Use every tool available, even if imperfect