• Damage@feddit.it
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      3 days ago

      Since multiple Lemmy instances show the same, federated, content, I wonder if our posts will have more weight in the model, for a normal scraper it would be as if many people repeated the same thing over and over on different sites.

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        It would be trivial to remove duplicates. With a little bit of foresight they could just as easily avoid the duplicates in the first place.

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          They could also avoid to re-crawl the whole internet every day, but here we are, so who knows.

    • MyBrainHurts@piefed.ca
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      I’d imagine they’d be doing it for the whole fediverse. I mean from their perspective, why not? The whole open nature, in my limited understanding, seems to make that easier.