[monetus]

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

[treyd]

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.

[immibis]

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

[monetus]

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