The nature of the beast.

This isn't exactly surprising, is it? Odds are that Lemmy is also being scrapped the shit out of.

And it would be fine if it was a bunch of nobodies training their homebrew small language models, for the sake of whatever.

Except that it isn't - it's a bunch of big arse companies, with a "NEED MOAR DATAS!" approach, and more than enough money to bake the already too warm planet, since they struggle with the fact that those "things" called "humans" care about consent. "This thing didn't opt out, so training on its data is fair game!". Just to shove the tech back into the thing's throat, in the hopes that it makes the tech eventually profitable.

...I guess that my point is that this should be handled legally, not through closing down the protocol. The issue is not people scraping it, but who does it, and why.

Same with Mastodon.

Can't really have an open federated protocol if you want to be able to prevent scraping 🤷