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
@liaizon @bsky.brid.gy This sounds bad but as a non-technical person, I don’t understand much of it. Questions:
1. Is it likely that everyone here has had data scraped?
2. Can we protect ourselves?
3. If so, how?
I am sure there are more questions but these come to mind immediately.
Thanks.
@JaneinNJ @bsky.brid.gy they have been pulling everything from the public feed on mastodon.social. as an individual there isn't really anything you can do except complain to them
@liaizon @bsky.brid.gy Thanks. How to complain?
@liaizon Do I have to be a Github member? Not interested in giving even more people my info…