Maven, a new social network backed by OpenAI's Sam Altman, found itself in a controversy today when it imported a huge amount of posts and profiles from the Fediverse, and then ran AI analysis to alter the content.

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[–] Blaze@reddthat.com 9 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Defederation is more about not being flooded with 1000x more users than the Fediverse currently has

[–] IronKrill@lemmy.ca 1 points 5 months ago

Unfortunately a lot of people think it's to do with scraping as well. The amount of "defederate Threads so that they can't scrape my data" posts I saw was about 50-50 with the sensible takes.

[–] misk@sopuli.xyz 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

So far we only have a corpo fedi-twitter in form of Threads. In that case non-corpo instance user has to specifically follow someone before their content is federated so that sounds like a bit overblown issue.

[–] Blaze@reddthat.com 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Seems pretty easy for any corporation to setup something like https://lemmy-federate.com/ but for Maston/IceShrimp/Misskey accounts to federate the important corporate accounts to the targeted non-corpo instances

[–] misk@sopuli.xyz 1 points 5 months ago

There's no real harm in that unless they spam, at which point those accounts can be banned which shouldn't overwhelm moderators.