Anti-scraping people are tiring.
Federation duplicates data and the way masto is built, masto's federation backs it up for perpetual availability.
Scraping and archiving is another side of the same coin.
You opt into having a permanent record of your digital activity when you start posting online.
@jonn yep… i think keeping everything forever is a bad default. i'd much prefer a) a sensible default of say 1 year, b) dissappearing toots by default, c) option to mark a post as persistent at creation time or later, d) automatic scraping of everything not liked / marked as persistent / bookmarked etc…
having said that, i don't know how the server works and if what i imagine as a better solution is actually any good. guess you folks will fix it sooner or later :-)
@jonn ah, sorry, i was thinking about that other thing :-) real sorry, i have to boost my attention circuits. coffee time!