@josephcox 404media does some great work, and you're absolutely right that what's happening with AI and search is a crisis for the industry that is causing great harm.
That said:
1. The explainer seems to conflate asking for e-mails to halt scraping (to verify that the reader is human) with asking for e-mails to send content there directly. These are not the same.
2. Your post seems to accuse Mastodon users of wrongdoing without anything to support the claim.
Is there something I'm missing?