@adiz @icedquinn @p @miscbrains @m0xEE

Having content hidden behind a login screen makes it hard for newcomers to join or even think of joining your community, because they have no idea what the community is like. Not to mention that I can silently break the trust everything is based on here without much work. I can operate an instance and silently log every activity that comes in and feed to an AI with 15 lines of Elixir. With AP you need to publicly show your outbox anyway I think and a lot of the smarter scrapers use that.

Not to mention that white-list federation goes exactly against the goals of decentralized networking. You are essentially proposing a version of a federated private tracker.