Anything that touches the internet can be scraped. Mastodon DMs aren’t encrypted, and public posts are obviously public. There’s nothing stopping someone from using the API or any web crawler to harvest data on mastodon users anyway.

Not arguing for/against threads, tbh I don’t even use mastodon much because I don’t really like the idea of microblogging to begin with

I’d recommend reading the books if you haven’t, the show changes a bit but it only goes up to book 6 out of 9. The books are all pretty long (I don’t read much though), but they’re highly worth reading

Some people are speculating a database error, because apparently 0.18.3 requires a database migration to work, here’s the other post I just saw about this: https://lemdit.com/post/262746

Seems to be down, I haven’t heard any news but can no longer log in