@natalie@nya.social
UPDATED
Hi all, apologies for this, we looked into what was happening more and turns out the issue was a link unshortening script - we didn't scrape posts, only used the official API. We didn't realize the unshortening script wad causing problems and have stopped it. In terms of why we were doing this data collection, we are doing research on how content moderation policies vary across servers, and how this can help inform the Fediverse more broadly about effective approaches to content moderation. You can get more of a sense of the kind of research we do here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1k2D4zVqkSHB1M9wpXtAe3UzbeE0RPpD_E2UpaPf6Lds/edit?usp=sharing
Sorry again about causing problems for folks! (And thanks to a couple of people for emailing me to let me know about this)