@knezi @jwildeboer As a side note, Mastodon offers a few useful features like automatic post deletions and hiding more profile stuff. This does not by any means guarantee third parties can't scrape or see any of this, but at the same time, it does limit them a lot more. For example, unless they're scraping constantly, they're not going to see older automatically deleted posts.
A lot of instances will block those who spam too many requests I imagine.