Just out of curiosity is it possible to easily bulk collect #ActivityPub content in a manner akin to #Usenet archives? If so, given the current state of affairs in the world, that might not be a good thing.

Today's reasonable stance on some issue might become tomorrow's wrong-think. All sides do it, sometimes even to their own. (So don't assume immunity.) I don't like to see people get cancelled for the thoughts of yesteryear.

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Yes, and everyone needs to keep in mind that given the design decisions behind ActivityPub, all privacy related issues are on a voluntary basis.

If you post content with a specific audience, that will probably get actively broadcast to a different instance whose operator has every ability to ignore the privacy settings, rebroadcast the content publicly, and ignore all requests for deletion.

This is an ax I grind around here because so many people don't realize how weak privacy protections are when they act on this platform.

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