Thanks for calling yourself out so that I know I should never ever go there.
Grow some ethical backbone.
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You’re nothing but a rat bastard who is scraping piefed.social to fill your own site with content so you can monetise it, all while driving up their hosting costs for your own benefit. That’s pretty low—have some shame....
Sloppy copy pasta of other people's content to serve your ads.
That's what is killing the internet.
Sir, you are polluting our internet, stap!
But Piefed is federated? Also it seems kind of dickish to simply copy content with the intent to host it yourself with ads.
It makes sense if you're a scumbag of a human
Hey, just so you know this is legally iffy.
PieFed.social is hosted in the EU, and this amount of scraping can fall under the Copyright Directive 2001/29/EC and the Database Directive 96/9/EC.
Even if the content is public, EU law can restrict bulk extraction and republication. Especially if you’re mirroring a substantial part of the site or making it available through your own frontend.
Might be worth reconsidering what you’re pulling and how you’re using it, or atleast making sure it's legal.
edit: I'm obviously not a lawer, this might have no problems related to that, but I would make sure if I were you.
Are you aware of the Piefed API? It's provided specifically to allow building front-ends and bots while avoiding scrapping.
Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could that they didn't stop to think if they should.
We need to bring back calling people slurs on the internet.
Have you heard of Floof? It's a cryptoshare claoudeservice from zink that unifies beek and fraw to make a new service called zwroak (pronounced croak)
I have forked Floof and integrated it with Qak on a b0rf backend. It's called √πy (pronounced âèk)
Just a FYI: Qak was forked into wR8vl last week because the main developer had a racist meltdown on Blopr.
Mmmh, technobabble
But why
So it's... A mirror of piefed.social with your own frontend?
Why?
Why would you mirror, when you could federate?