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Boost confirms switching to being a fediverse app after the Reddit app shutdown. (www.reddit.com)
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Right now it's going to be for Lemmy, but the fediverse is still getting a fantastic app.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Scraping is hard on a server though. You gotta download the entire page and all its data instead of just the info/action you requested. That's one of the reasons other websites bother to make APIs, so bots and others DON'T start just scraping them.