It’s legal to scrape websites and this is doing it in a way that activity pub is designed to support. You can’t be mad another instance is reading your data, that’s what the fediverse is.

I think people will end up finding bridgy annoying frankly, but it seems like a useful tool that takes federated content and lets websites build things that used to be only available by adding Facebook pixel and Twitter links to your site.

[–] TimLovesTech@badatbeing.social 36 points 9 months ago (24 children)

Going out on a limb, but the for profit corporation being able to suck up your posts is probably what has many upset. I personally would block such a service as I don't see these for-profit corporations as part of the fediverse, but as leeches out to Extend, Embrace, Extinguish.

[–] FaceDeer@kbin.social 13 points 9 months ago

Plenty of for-profit companies use open protocols and don't harm them in the slightest.

Almost any website you visit, for example.

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