This can be a marketing/scam strategy, you send a new book, and they send their marketed(marketing) or old (scam) book to your supposed secret friend, then re-sell your new book.
I like this one
We should still call it twitter, never refering to X
My worst imagination is labelling you and selling your label to the companies they supply to, and how wrongly those companies can use that data, example: google search "prostate cancer" or searching for symptons associated with prostate cancer - label telling probable prostate cancer developing with this user - insurance companies denying insurance to you or making it too expensive. Now extrapolate this to what your searches probably tell about you or your state, and multiply by the websites you visit, the time you spend reading article/tweet/forum/post about a certain subject, where and how you comment those articles, etc, and being labeled according to their perceived likes/hates/problems about yourself.
Not sure if you can stream, but PeerTube uses activitypub if im not mistaken. https://joinpeertube.org/
RSS feeds is probably what you are looking for, create a group of your favorite news sources, most of the sites have them. I like feeder browser addon for Firefox.
Might be a move to gather more fighters: "Need food for your family? Join the fight and they will be fed"
In the end you will gain new knowledge from doing the project.
And you can try to use AI to speed up the project and see if that works for you, and gain a better insight on what are the current AI systems shortcomings are.
Why should i bother doing something "like this" if someone else has already done it? Because you will gain the experience to go to the next level.
Its never a waste of time but an improvement of yourself.
Makes you think who controls the root certificates we are all using by default and how those can be used to intercept traffic without us knowing
What could go wrong giving your personal details to everybody...
Tryhackme or hackthebox for learning and practice in DFIR?