How long until scrapers start hammering Mastodon servers?
Mastodon has AUTHORIZED_FETCH and DISALLOW_UNAUTHENTICATED_API_ACCESS which would at least stop these very naive scrapers from getting any data. Smarter scrapers could actually pretend to speak enough ActivityPub to scrape servers, though.
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Mastodon has AUTHORIZED_FETCH and DISALLOW_UNAUTHENTICATED_API_ACCESS which would at least stop these very naive scrapers from getting any data. Smarter scrapers could actually pretend to speak enough ActivityPub to scrape servers, though.