ok, I see what's happening here.
- that is not me, that is one of the other admins of the site, and it just seems like he didn't know the bad rep scrapers get at the time, I don't even know if I had made him an admin at the time
edit: also important to mention here: this was right around the time lemmynsfw was just getting back up as an archive, so people were trying to find ways to download their content off of the old site. - we don't really like scrapers either, they really increase the overhead of the site, I'm pretty sure we've made our best attempts to block scrapers or at the least rate limit them.
- that being said, the nature of lemmy and piefed's protocols are such that scrapers have a VERY easy time just getting whatever they want. They could access any instance that federates with ours that doesn't limit scrapers and scrape communities from our site. So it's definitely hard to control.
Also I tagged you in a post about what I think you were referring to as far as transphobic tags, we enforce tags on gonewild for organization's sake, I wasn't aware the terminology in the tags was transphobic, as I said in my comment there, I was told it was the proper terminology, it's been brought to our attention and we've changed the flairs, and we are actively looking into ways to change the titles of posts to retroactively not have transphobic gender tags.
As I have said many times on many posts and in matrix, if you have an issue with something on the site PLEASE take it up with the admins in a dm or in matrix. We are more than happy to listen.