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@noffle what's your counter proposal?

@yoshuawuyts open access via simple http requests

@yoshuawuyts over a distributed backend (ipfs, dat, ssb, which ever) so that twitter doesn't need to be on the line for serving all data

@noffle I think that's fair enough. If talking to a centralized service I think changing rate limits for API tokens might be reasonable

@noffle access without rate limiting on centralized services is unfortunately really problematic :(

@yoshuawuyts I can submit as many requests as I'd like to any website designed for human viewing, but not API endpoints. This seems strange.

@yoshuawuyts I'm skeptical that rate limiting is the only motivation at hand. They could limit by IP or cookie, right?

@yoshuawuyts any unique identifier, really. Making me register explicitly feels suspiciously like a control structure