don't blame threads for that, that was decided for Twitter and threads and the rest of the Internet by the LinkedIn vs HiQ web scraping case which said that content available outside of a login wall is fair game.

> that was decided for Twitter and threads and the rest of the Internet by the LinkedIn vs HiQ web scraping case which said that content available outside of a login wall is fair game

Q: Remind us who are the creators of all this valuable content that needs to be protected against scrapers?

(Spoiler: not the platforms that are blocking anonymous access to it)

I just now opened and browsed threads.net without logging in.

It is federated to an extent now though, can't you use a mastodon client without a meta account? I believe you can, iiuc.

Threads has defeded many Fedi instances for not being advertiser friendly and many Fedi instances rightly defeded Threads to protect their users from their scraping.

This doesn't protect anyone from scraping (read: people publicly viewing publicly published content)

I wonder why people think mastodon instances aren't generally scraped. If it is public, it was probably scraped.

> main issue with threads is that O can’t browse without signing up. Thus, it fails to form a value proposition

This is conserved across billions of dollars of social media. I’m not on most social media. But a paywall clearly works.

the open internet demolished aol and compuserve. a paywall doesn't always work; it depends on circumstances