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It’s possible that the enforcement of a rate limit isn’t because of AI scraping, but rather because they failed to migrate before the June 30th deadline.

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[–] wanderingmagus@lemmy.world 45 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I think it's probably a combination of self-DDOSing and not paying providers. Which any intelligent experienced dev could've told him, but they all got fired months ago.

[–] Found@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 year ago

Its almost like the developers were holding the site together.

[–] sadreality@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

AnD TwaTTEr JusT ruNnInG FiNe DaWG

Other companies should follow the lead and fire all this dead weight 🙄

Imagine all the profit!