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   carbon offsets are BS ☕️🥬 (plasma4045@mas.to)'s status on Monday, 18-Dec-2023 04:06:38 JST carbon offsets are BS ☕️🥬

   I’m starting to doubt I’ll ever get a straight answer to this question.

   It’s just dogmatic “but meta” over and over. I only ever ask this in response to “concerns” about data/privacy but weirdly never get a response from these people who purport to be super worried about it.

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     Tim Chambers (tchambers@indieweb.social)'s status on Monday, 18-Dec-2023 04:09:59 JST Tim Chambers

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     @plasma4045 I made a similar argument to yours here in June: https://www.timothychambers.net/2023/06/23/project-and-the.html

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     Jon (jdp23@indieweb.social)'s status on Monday, 18-Dec-2023 10:04:39 JST Jon

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     • Tim Chambers

     @tchambers indeed, and several people explained to you why you were wrong. Including me!

     @plasma4045 two things are stopping people today,. First of all, there are legal restrictions on scraping -- both in the US and Europe. Secondly, some information isn't scrapable -- followers-only posts and DMs.

     Also, more barriers could be added. I talk about this (and have links to discussions of the legal situation) in "They can't scrape it if they can't fetch it" in https://privacy.thenexus.today/fediverse-threat-modeling-privacy-and-meta/#no-fetching