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@welshpixie@mastodon.art @mike@flipboard.social I appreciate you laying that out clearly. To be specific about what Surf does: when a user logs into Surf with their Mastodon account, they're opting in to use Surf as their client. The posts they see are public posts accessed through the standard Mastodon API — the same way Ivory, Ice Cubes, or any third-party client works. We don't scrape or redistribute posts outside of that user's authenticated session. Where Surf differs from a traditional client is that it also shows content from other networks like Bluesky alongside Mastodon content. But the Mastodon content is accessed through the same API every client uses, on behalf of a user who chose to log in. I respect your community's values around consent and I understand the concern. I also want to be 1000% transparent on what we are doing and how it works. Privacy is extremely important to me (and us) and being transpararent about how this works is a critical component to that endeavor. Happy to keep the conversation going if you have specific scenarios you'd like me to address.