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[–] LinkOpensChest_wav@lemmy.one 176 points 1 year ago (70 children)

Tbh everyone just needs to leave reddit

Let the bots take over

It's always been Stormfront 2.0 anyway

Fuck reddit

[–] someguy3@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 year ago (10 children)

Ironically this API issue will kill bots, which was needed.

[–] Yewb@kbin.social 45 points 1 year ago (7 children)

It will only slow them temporarily you don't need api for bots

[–] troybot@kbin.social 26 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Correct. Now the bots will be constantly scraping the pages of every post which will be a much bigger burden on their servers.

[–] Skray@kbin.social 18 points 1 year ago

It's funny, years ago websites switched to openly available APIs specifically to lessen server burden because of bots. Now they're swapping away from APIs because of bots, but those bots are just gonna go back to scraping.

Sounds like Reddit has a skill issue.

[–] Yewb@kbin.social 8 points 1 year ago

Exactly spez forgot why they needed an api

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