Recent searches
Search options
Discovered this morning that Maven https://heymaven.com (a social media startup who's CEO is ex OpenAI "Ken Stanley: leading the Open-Endedness Team at OpenAI") is mass importing public posts from the #fediverse with no links back to the original and no way to delete them. It seems there is no Opt-out or Opt-in mechanism at all. It also has posts from #Bluesky pulled in via @bsky.brid.gy that are also not linked back to the original.
Here's an example: https://app.heymaven.com/profile/66927
1.12 million fediverse posts scraped by AI startup Maven founded by ex OpenAI lead...
confirmation by Maven CTO Jimmy Secretan https://app.heymaven.com/discover/1190743
@liaizon this post says that replies federate back. They seem to be an activityPub server. Probably limited like threads.net. but a legit actor, not scraping
https://app.heymaven.com/discover/978715
@shadowwwind they currently seem to be one way. and they don't link back to the original post, so I would still consider it scraping even if they are using AP to do it...
@liaizon according to him comments do federate back. And the linking thing might just be, that they didn't set that up yet. In the search all mastodon accounts that I saw at least had the whole Webfinger in their name.