Just because we’re old farts that don’t really appreciate video as a medium doesn’t mean it’s not valid for some.

It’s actually even easier than that. Instead of setting up an tool to make up requests for the API, you can just set up a bridge that will dump everything right into your database. The wonders of federation.

It’s very hard to actually secure something someone has physical access to and that can be disassembled.

Well, they can (and will) still scrape us if they want. Just nobody’s making a buck off of it.

Well what would you know about it, ernest.

They could still charge the leadership, fine them, and cause life to be a bit more difficult. Even if I don’t live in a country, I wouldn’t want that hanging over my head.

This is not my beautiful wife.

We call that redlining in the US and it’s often tied up with race over here, which can quickly get a credit company into lawsuits https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redlining

https://bookwyrm.social/ though I imagine they don’t have the algorithm for discovery and their user base isn’t large enough to really make up for it yet.