Even so I think it would be totally reasonable for them to block web scrapers, as they provide better ways to download all their data.

I didn’t want to be exposed to exploits, so made sure to never install the Google services stuff.

Yeah but the traffic from scraping other instances is going to get noticed real quickly, whereas a small instance federating with everyone else isn’t really suspicious.

Yeah that’s true; real anonymity would be something like 4chan where users aren’t distinguishable. Here you can tell who people are, but not necessarily find out their real life identity.

It’s too small to bother with?

Dear CEO of antifa, I’m the CEO of the NSA. How do you pronounce “antifa”? We’ve been really struggling in our meetings. Best regards.

That is usually how males and females of a species are differentiated in general: males have the small gamete and females have the large one. (As you said, some individuals may not produce gametes so it only applies in general).

Of course humans are a lot more complicated. We have a concept of gender which doesn’t necessarily align with biological sex, and many people modify their sex characteristics to match their gender, so applying generalizations blindly gets you nowhere.