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[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

If they don't scrape Reddit, it's because scraping Reddit costs money. Because they closed down their free-of-charge APIs, remember? Which they did because people were scraping their data for free.

Scraping Lemmy is free, and most probably will always remain that way.