@evan Thanks. I think this is all important nuance that’s being lost. It seems like most people think this was a blind scraper.
At worst, the tags.pub documentation did not make clear enough that posts it saw — posts it was *specifically given permission to use* by instance admins or users — would be sent to relays, or which relays those were.
(That is, if I’m still understanding all this correctly, which I may not be.)