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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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[–] 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.