@paninid It's more complex than that. Today< there are legal barriers to them scraping public information, technical barriers to them scraping non-public information (followers-only posts), and opportunities to add additional technical barriers to scraping currently-public info. Of course Meta, Facebook, and Instagram have a history of breaking the law and acquiring data without consent even when it's illegal, stringing out the legal process as long as possible, and then paying the fine as a cost of doing business ... but then again EU data protection authorities have been coming down hard on them, and recently issued a strong statement about scraping, so for the limited value of today's fediverse Meta might not see it as worth flagrantly breaking the law.