Dropsitenews published a list of websites Facebook uses to train its AI on. Multiple Lemmy instances are on the list as noticed by user BlueAEther
Hexbear is on there too. Also Facebook is very interested in people uploading their massive dongs to lemmynsfw.
Full article here.
Link to the full leaked list download: Meta leaked list pdf
We do block several genai scrapers, so that could be related yes.
Hey, I want to thank you for all you do. I'm not currently on db0 but I started there. I also recognized it when I was making the transition over to Lemmy. I see you pop up in comments all over and I'm taking this opportunity, because it's relevant, to let you know I appreciate your presence on here and your advocacy for the freedoms of information and communication
Cheers mate. I appreciate it