You don't even need an account to browse Lemmy. This is among the easiest platforms for that.

It's called ActivityPub. It's basically RSS on steroids. The content here is about as public as it gets.

It wouldn't even be fair to call it "scraping", you just run an instance and the data pours in like a firehose.

It's really important to know this if you're on the Fediverse. If you're here for privacy, big oof.

it's even easier to scrape than reddit. in the current world you gotta assume everything publicly accessible is scraped and used for ai training

Yes, it's scraped by bots. The entire public Web is.

*scraping

Anyone can make a server and then they can scrape their server or database without issue.

So much easier.

I dunno, is there an effort to scrap bots for their code?

Scrapping is what you do to an old car that is no use anymore to turn it into parts

You mean scraping. I don't think there's as much here as researchers don't know about lemmy