Comment on Who owns the servers for Lemmy?
viking@infosec.pub 8 months agoTrue, what I mean is that federation removes the need for scraping since the data is delivered to you in its purest form.
Comment on Who owns the servers for Lemmy?
viking@infosec.pub 8 months agoTrue, 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.