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2025 refresh (#551)

Signed-off-by: Tim Bray <tbray@textuality.com>
Reviewed-on: https://codeberg.org/fediverse/fep/pulls/551
Co-authored-by: Tim Bray <tbray@textuality.com>
Co-committed-by: Tim Bray <tbray@textuality.com>
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@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ Dramatis Personae:
* Existing Fediverse Voices, hereinafer *EFV1*, *EFV2*, etc
*Noob*: Hey, I want to crawl the Fediverse and build an index so we can…
*EFV1*: Stop! Go back! Don't!
*EFV2*: We prefer not to do that here because we want to avoid into big-tech surveillance capitalism.
@@ -42,7 +43,8 @@ Dramatis Personae:
## Discussion
This scenario is happening really a lot, multiple times per week in December/January 2022-3.
While Fediverse search has become less controversial since the previous revision of this FEP, the issue remains
highly relevant with the advent of crawlers from AI companies gathering material to feed into LLMs.
At the moment, the Fediverse privacy story is unsatisfactory. Unless a user really understands the
visibility levels, every post they make instantly becomes part of the permanent indelible Internet
@@ -77,6 +79,7 @@ to *commercial* data harvesters, and provide a tool to combat certain classes of
- @pamela@bsd.network, [Hacky folks, please resist finding ways to scrape the fediverse….](https://bsd.network/@pamela/109287805657081451)
- GitHub discussion, [Controlling availability to search](https://github.com/w3c/activitypub/issues/221)
- Tim Bray [Private and Public Mastodon](https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2022/12/30/Mastodon-Privacy-and-Search)
- IETF [Activity Preferences Working Group](https://www.ietf.org/blog/aipref-wg/)
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