I think it depends on where the bottleneck is, and what they're actually trying to prevent, as to whether or not rate-limiting would actually help anything.

If they are blocking source IP addresses explicitly, it could be for a more specific concern we're not aware of, like trying to limit the amount of email "spam" that would be sent out from automated requests. A rate-limit wouldn't fix that issue, only slow it down.

We're all also assuming any of this is even intentional on their or anyone's part.

I think you assume that there is even a contract, and that if it did exist, it wouldn't allow this.

Going to court for this would also cost way more than the product is worth.

imagine waiting for a torrent when usenet immediately saturates your link 24/7

I wonder how one changes that setting if using a different audio server

I know some subreddits where people ask the same questions over and over, all day every day. They don't read the rules/sidebar, they don't read the stickied posts, they don't read the automod response and they don't search before posting. if you mention any of those they immediately turn defensive and abusive usually. it's incredibly frustrating.

never encountered a single instance of abuse

I encounter it literally every single day and I know many others that do too. It's so bad it makes me want to quit using Matrix altogether. You're just not in the right (wrong) rooms. The ones that happen to get left unmoderated are always taken over by bad actors, not even talking about the ones (like mentioned in the video) that were deliberately setup to harbor vile content, which is also plentiful unfortunately.

now if we could just get some real mods @ lemmy.world...

plot twist: joke's on you, it's just viral marketing

Has any company ever sent a DMCA for content that wasn't accessible via http(s) or torrent?

4000 hungry children leave us per hour from starvation

Apple

something something altstore

It was originally Gtk and they rewrote it with Qt: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGZyVSOnqm0

But Linus does write C++/Qt code: https://github.com/subsurface/subsurface/commit/1b16d570a1b6700295153bd6597b148b65000458