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I do not know enough about the ActivityPub protocol to answer that. I did think that federation at least used to be the default many years ago but aren't sure about the current status of that. Indeed detection and subsequent blocking will always be the cat and mouse game that is played but use of ActivityPub might at least delay the former part? And how would anyone find out, compared to e.g. if not a single person household then at least a small community instance just wanting to pull down all the content across the Fediverse to read up on?

This phrase needs to be made way more popular than it is currently:-)

Meanwhile, DuckDuckGo on the other hand...

Wait, but I don't see how it's relevant in the smallest of ways... OOOOOH! (/s, bc obviously we all knew that already:-P)

Except iirc, they aren't scraping "properly" (read: efficiently at least, setting aside morality for the sake of discussing this component in isolation), and are causing traffic troubles. If only they took the time to install an actual instance themselves then nobody would care in the slightest (again, ignoring the morality part, for now).

TLDR: they are being dicks about it, bc offering everything we have for free is not enough for them.

There's a bunch - Voyager, Interstellar, a fork of Thunder although not yet in the main code iirc, and some others I can't recall the names of. The last couple of months has seen a huge surge in these capabilities.

Probably the best features that PieFed is known for though are still only available in the webpage UI, until things can catch up.

Do yourself a favor and skip the fluff piece and move straight to the pubmed article linked after it, unless you really enjoy reading sentences like:

It serves as an 'intelligent brain'...

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, aka for those who open their eyes to choose to receive it. :-D

You... don't want to know:-(

(Totally /s btw - you just keep living your best self:-)

No—do you?