@shibao apparently it brought servers down because the scrapers didn't throttle their shit while scaping
@bonifartius@qoto.org damn if only there were literally any other solutions like robots.txt or blocking user agents or literally just putting an error message when you intentionally break functionality on your site
@shibao i'm annoyed by it as well, but i can absolutely understand if someone doesn't want to implement defensive measures which are trivially worked around or ignored. a better message would be good, yes.
@bonifartius@qoto.org just because a commie might be on the other side of my front door doesn't mean i put a round through it every time someone knocks on it