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[-] filister@lemmy.world 32 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

What makes you think that they are not scraping Lemmy too? The only reason they might not be is probably how niche Lemmy and the fediverse are, but I am sure there have been people already doing it.

[-] drmoose@lemmy.world 28 points 5 months ago

Fediverse is designed to do exactly that. It's free flow of information which is a good thing. Don't let corporations hijack this beautiful concept. We all want information to be free.

[-] olympicyes@lemmy.world 16 points 5 months ago

I’m not mad about the scraping. The linkedin scraping case pretty much cemented that there was nothing that could be done to stop it. I’m just mad that I can no longer use the app of my choice. No such problem with Lemmy.

[-] AlexWIWA@lemmy.ml 4 points 5 months ago

Lemmy is even easier to scrape. Just set up your own instance, then read the database after activity pub pushes everything to you.

[-] kia@lemmy.ca 3 points 5 months ago

I'm sure they are, but Reddit probably provides these companies with lots of personalized metadata they collect just for them which they may not get from Lemmy.

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