Comment on Who owns the servers for Lemmy?
TWeaK@lemm.ee 8 months agoAnd there’s nothing you can do about it, that’s simply how a decentralized network works.
It’s also how the internet works, and you wouldn’t need to set up an instance to scrape the data from lemmy.
viking@infosec.pub 8 months ago
True, what I mean is that federation removes the need for scraping since the data is delivered to you in its purest form.
TWeaK@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Yeah API access is more efficient for the host than delivering the human-viewable content. Hence why Twitter and others always used to have their API open, so they could minimise the load from scraping.