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Maven is mass importing public posts from the Fediverse without attribution

9 pointsby NoraCodes11 months ago
As the title says. heymaven.com is scraping public posts and entire profiles from the fediverse and reposting them wholesale, without any scalable opt-out mechanism. Critically, while they are attributed to domain and display name, they are not attributed by handle, so it&#x27;s not always possible to actually find the OP.<p>Maven discussion here: https:&#x2F;&#x2F;app.heymaven.com&#x2F;discover&#x2F;1190743<p>Fedi discussion here: https:&#x2F;&#x2F;social.wake.st&#x2F;@liaizon&#x2F;112603447990005434

3 comments

palata11 months ago
I thought it was about Maven the build system. Apparently there is &quot;Heymaven&quot; a social network?
CM3011 months ago
Apparently they&#x27;re importing drafts and direct messages too, somehow?<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wedistribute.org&#x2F;2024&#x2F;06&#x2F;maven-mastodon-posts&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wedistribute.org&#x2F;2024&#x2F;06&#x2F;maven-mastodon-posts&#x2F;</a><p>I&#x27;m not sure how that&#x27;s possible, but it seems kinda worrying that ActivityPub lets you trivially make that mistake when mirroring data.
wakest11 months ago
funny to see this pop up here, this thing sorta blew up today...