ok i’ll start with the quiz: name one civilization that lived in northern europe in the medieval age and frequently terrorized the english.

uhm, idk, in my mind “community events” just translates to “something that makes users addicted”. i typically nope out of that as soon as i detect it.

but, upon second consideration, some of them even sound like fun. might be worth a try.

one problem with data scraping is that it puts a significant network load on servers, which slows down the browsing experience for genuine humans. this is why many platforms already operate measures to detract bots. i think the most well-known project is Anubis, as is used for example on https://feddit.org/

(it works by doing a proof-of-work. the client needs to solve a few cryptographic puzzles sothat the operationing cost for bot scrapers becomes too high while for humans it’s an acceptable cost.)

eh i don’t like having personal followers. (on lemmy that’s also not possible). it’s more about wanting to have people to actually meaningfully discuss with.

how do we get more? i made stickers

i already handed out 50 or sth.

edit: huh that’s weird. both projects don’t display anything for my feed (outbox) for https://feddit.org/u/gandalf_der_12te account. meanwhile mastodon instance (wien.rocks) shows half the posts and on lemmy i can see all of them.

thank you, that was precisely what i was looking for! :D