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You are so intelligent that you didn’t realize I’m not the same person who made the original comment.

Care to explain in more detail? Or are you going to just leave that low effort diss and ghost?

There is no way to know if a Lemmy instance is running the official FOSS software or a modified closed source version. But to answer your question, anyone can scrape the public data even now. Your private data like DMs would need a backdoor or a zero day exploit to scrape.

Potentially yes but then it becomes coders vs coders and FOSS doesn’t pay out the same salaries.

Additionally, closed source can leech all the good code from open source (or in an arms race, inspect their methods of detection) while open source has to make their own code. Its an unequal relationship.

If your Fediverse client is proprietary then no I don’t think it goes against FOSS social media. When there is corporate incentive for profit and all their stuff is closed source it makes sense why FOSS would want to block that.

Sure they can. But if the actions are automated on the side of the mega corps then a human admin stands no chance of stopping them. Bot vs human, the bot always wins. The only solution is closed instances, which sucks because that goes against the whole idea of FOSS social media.

Its not as easy as that. If you have open signup on your instance you would have a hard time stopping a user signing up, creating a community, and then filling it with synced data from another location. There is no instance to defederate. They are in all open instances.

One thing that people are not talking about is that it would be fairly trivial to create communities in the fediverse on open servers and then just sync a bunch of your corporate drivel from what ever company like meta into those communities. Its already happening. Reddit was the first one to do this. There are communities where every single link goes to Reddit here on Lemmy