LOL this is not how you deal with "data scraping," this is how you deal with a catastrophic loss of system capacity.

You limit data scraping by blocking things a human user couldn't do, like access a thousand posts a minute. This is aimed directly at reducing normal activity across the whole system.

The extraordinary thing about the #JohnMastodon vs Elmo Musk thing is that it's naturally occurring #gnostic #mythology. Musk is exactly the egoist demiurge who claims to be the creator but creates nothing, while #JohnMastodon is Abraxas; no two accounts can agree on their details, they are contradictory and multiple, they cannot be reduced to a single instance.

#PKD and #CarlJung would have been peeing their pants if they could have watched this occurring in real time.