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   Alec Muffett (alecmuffett@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 11-May-2024 08:43:45 JST Alec Muffett

   Zuckerman vs: Zuckerberg: why and how this is a battle of the public understanding of APIs, and why Zuckerman needs to lose and Meta needs to win
   https://alecmuffett.com/article/109757
   #EthanZuckerman #KinLane #apis #meta #scraping

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     Alec Muffett (alecmuffett@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 11-May-2024 08:44:20 JST Alec Muffett

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     • Mike Masnick ✅

     Tag: @mmasnick who may enjoy this one

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     Mike Masnick ✅ (mmasnick@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 11-May-2024 08:44:20 JST Mike Masnick ✅

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     @alecmuffett i think your premise is wrong. This is not a "right to use" lawsuit. Meta can still use technical measures to block.

     It just can't take *legal* measures to block.

     And I think that's a good result.

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     Alec Muffett (alecmuffett@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 15-May-2024 08:51:53 JST Alec Muffett

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     • Mike Masnick ✅

     @mmasnick but what will happen when civil society runs into APIs which do not behave as general purpose functionality that scales linearly?

     Yes we can argue about legalities and lawsuits, but the bottom line is that private APIs do not have to be designed to support this kind of functionality, and at some point civil society is going to complain that they don't.

     At that point: either civil society gives up, or it demands a public API, or it seeks to compel removal of rate limits.