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

  • philmEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Yeah absolutely, I’m actually tempted to implement some kind of encompassing “all” instance that listens to all communities of all known lemmy instances (to emulate something like reddits r/all equivalent for lemmy), which I think would be pretty useful, to get an idea of the “size” of the lemmy community. Probably without any users itself (also to avoid being blacklisted from other instances).

    • Die4EverEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      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

      • philmEnglish
        3·
        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.