@jwsgeek the idea here wouldn't be you follow the corporations, but that media orgs would host instances for their writers. there's certainly risk that corps could scrape data from their writers' engagements. i guess they likely would, though maybe some explicit terms of federation could prevent it. without that, if this is valuable to them, i wonder if there won't emerge an ecosystem that quietly, covertly collects such data for them, even if they do not overtly host instances.