There are valid reasons for not wanting the whole database e.g. storage constraints, compatibility with ETL pipelines, and incorporating article updates.

What bothers me is that they -- apparently -- crawl instead of just... using the API, like:

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=parse&format=json&page=Lemmy_%28social_network%29&formatversion=2

I'm guessing they just crawl the whole web and don't bother to add a special case to turn Wikipedia URLs into their API versions.

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My comment was based on a podcast I listened to (Tech won’t save us, I think?). My guess is they also wanna crawl all the edits, discussion etc. which is usually not included in the complete dumps.

It seems there are ways to stop crawlers. Do a web search for "stop ai crawlers" or similar to learn more. I hope it doesn’t escalate into an arms race, but I realise I might be disappointed.

Also google makes it the first result for a lot of searches now.

Reddit stopped being fun last November.

I am not engaging with it as much as I used to, and now I am actively annoyed with it and trying to make Lemmy my default again.

In fact, I think at least in Brazil Reddit is becoming more and more popular. Go back like 5 years ago and Brazilian subs in Portuguese were small and low-traffic except for one or two (ex: /r/brasil).

Now there are a bunch of different themes and I see new topics being discussed quite often.

I believe the reason is Facebook has enshittified so much that its communities are dying quickly and Brazilians are finding Reddit works better for simple discussions. Also no one posts anything personal on FB anymore, it’s all Instagram style reposts so it lost any purpose.

Didn't really support the porn industry since the beginning but I kinda miss the porn magazines and the website made for it.

It's far more dangerous for multiple reasons to view porn on mainstream socials than intended websites, for young specifically... Sadly... One more thing that tend to worsen...