Crazy part is this researcher is a part of the Bluesky community, he thought he was giving back - this stuff is great for moderation purposes, spam rejection, crypto scam detection, and just fun "maps of supercluster" projects [0].
[0] https://nucleardiner.wordpress.com/2023/05/21/bluesky-is-for...
I feel like there's a fundamental disconnect between the hacker ethos of "everything online is fair game, let's scrape a ton of data and see what cool stuff we can do" and the more...let's say European ideas about data and privacy rights. Neither one is inherently right or wrong, but they both cannot coexist on the internet.