@Xantulon @doot Add to this the fact that all Meta (or anyone else) needs to do to slurp up all this data *completely legitimately and in an authorised way* is to have a single account on Mastodon.social with an API key, and that most instances don't bother to come up with privacy policies, and yeah, this is far more a "the call is coming from inside the house!" situation than an "oh no the big bads will break down our front door"