Yes and no. If you look at the technical side of things, you're absolutely right. If you look at the social side, however, there's a lot of talk on there about

Yes and no. If you look at the technical side of things, you're absolutely right. If you look at the social side, however, there's a lot of talk on there about opting out of scraping, scrapers being bad, not wanting to be part of AI training and so on. Naming-and-shaming people who have been caught scraping is a routine practice. I think that many Mastodonians believe that defederating from scraper-friendly instances and blocking scraper-like requests on their own protects them, this was a way to show that this very much isn't true.