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what about data scrapers? (self.meta)

submitted 1 year ago by lucoso to c/meta

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reddit and twitter (suposedly) jacked up their API prices because of data scrapers, what could lemmy to do try to stop them?

i dont think we can do anything

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[–] Die4Ever 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I wonder how stuff like this would affect the scalability of the fediverse, I think having 1 instance like you describe would be good, but having many of them could become an issue maybe

[–] philm 3 points 1 year ago

Yeah but this is a general problem that ActivityPub has, it builds on the goodwill of the people/instances.

But I don't think it will be a really big issue, if there are really just a few of these instances (that is the premise though) But it's a good point, when something like this is open source, and anyone could spin it up to kinda DDOS the fediverse...

But when looking at it in more positive light/good will, it could probably also be used as an intermediate cache/index instance for other instances, which may save requests to the original instances.

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