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I hope that's how it goes. I'm just wary or Meta with their love of data harvesting having an interesting in ActivityPub. That said, I'll wait and see how it goes before making a judgment.
Sooner rather than later "we" will have to deal with the legal implications of federated systems like the ones around ActivityPub. If not Meta, OpenAI could just as easily tap into the data. And if not OpenAI, then someone else. Or all of them.
So while it might seem like a solution to just defederate these players, it will effectively be a cat and mouse game. So there have to be legally binding rules, so we can at least protect the data in western countries.
Couldn't they already access pretty much anything on the fediverse through the APIs and scraping anyway?
I'd say this is more about getting fediverse market share and trying to exert control over the fediverse through influence of a large userbase.