Reblogged by keul@fosstodon.org ("Luca Fabbri"):
maxkennerly@mstdn.social ("Max Kennerly") wrote:
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.