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  • Unfortunately you can’t do much about it other than try and block the bots by making it expensive (or impossible since some don’t allow JS) for them with PoW CAPTCHAs (such as Anubis) on the frontend. And even then, if someone really wanted to scrape, they can always set an instance up themselves or even register an account on the instance and just call the APIs directly (which most likely won’t be behind the PoW CAPTCHA as no known Lemmy client has functionality to solve them yet). Whether the scraper instance gets caught and blocked by admins is another matter, though.