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Public Firehose Project Shutters After Backlash
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this post was submitted on 03 Feb 2025
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There's a small, but extremely loud segment of the Mastodon userbase that seems to view presenting public posts in any manner that's different from how a vanilla Mastodon server does as an invasion of their privacy. There have also been a few projects that raised reasonable concerns about privacy and moderation, but this page doesn't seem to make a distinction.
It appears to contain misinformation about FediFirehose, which ran client side and just showed the output of a public relay.
It's not nearly a small enough segment, really. It's a fairly significant fraction of the pre-2022 population.
They were excited to see people show up after Musk bought Twitter, but it was a very "now you'll have to play by OUR rules!" kind of excitement.