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https://mstdn.social/@maxkennerly/110640373859329500 https://mstdn.social/@maxkennerly/110640373859329500 > LOL this is not how you deal with "data scraping,"
by rideontime 3y ago
https://mstdn.social/@maxkennerly/110640373859329500 https://mstdn.social/@maxkennerly/110640373859329500
> LOL this is not how you deal with "data scraping," this is how you deal with a catastrophic loss of system capacity.
> You limit data scraping by blocking things a human user couldn't do, like access a thousand posts a minute. This is aimed directly at reducing normal activity across the whole system.