@david@mstdn.ything.xyz @aurynn @maegul I can assure you that scraping is impossible to reliably prevent. I know this because scraping (albeit ethically) is my specialization and I have yet to see even multi-billion dollar companies figure out a reliable way to stop it. Even Google's completely absurd and over-the-top TCP fingerprinting (which requires a level of infrastructure control that fedi instances do not have) can't stop it fully.
@david@mstdn.ything.xyz @aurynn @maegul All of which brings me back to my original point: you're not gonna magically solve this problem on a technical level, regardless of how "new" the fediverse is (it isn't).
It requires non-technical approaches, accountability chief among them.