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> I don't think that's a realistic threat oh boy, i think you just declared a challenge .
by fallat 3y ago
> I don't think that's a realistic threat
oh boy, i think you just declared a challenge .
- appplication 3y agoHonestly I think it is pretty realistic. The content is public, what about this would be particularly difficult?
- diggan 3y agoI don't think it's difficult per se, it would just take long time, as most implementations have pretty low rate limits so the crawl would be slow.
- omoikane 3y agoMaybe they meant it's not a threat because people don't care about who they are following being revealed, since it used to be publicized on Twitter. Though note that Twitter has a "list" feature that allows users to differentiate people they follow versus contents that they want to read[1], whereas Fediverse's "list" feature is more of a filter since users must follow an account first before it can be placed on a list[2]. I think the workaround for Mastodon would be to bookmark profile pages for people you want to check on but don't want to follow. [1] https://lee-phillips.org/howtotwitter/ https://lee-phillips.org/howtotwitter/ [2] https://docs.joinmastodon.org/methods/lists/#accounts-add https://docs.joinmastodon.org/methods/lists/#accounts-add