" but you should know, nodebb is behaving as any other activitypub server does."
OK
This is neither the issue nor the solution
The simple fact is that coder bros have been scraping content against the will of the content creator and without the content creator's knowledge as long as I've been on Mastodon
The point is not "your data is on the Internet so anybody can take it"
99% of people simply don't have the technical expertise, and 99% have too much personal integrity to aggregate someone else's content without their knowledge or permission
Just because a coder bro *can* do something doesn't mean that they *should* -- not that your average bright-eyed coder bro gives a f*ck about what someone else wants anyway -- we're all just ignorant Neanderthals, right?
So stop acting as if anything you want to do is OK to do, just because you can