Here’s the logic:
wget --mirror --convert-links --adjust-extension --page-requisites --no-parent https://example.com/
But why
You’re nothing but a rat bastard who is scraping piefed.social to fill your own site with content so you can monetise it, all while driving up their hosting costs for your own benefit. That’s pretty low—have some shame…
Hey, just so you know this is legally iffy.
PieFed.social is hosted in the EU, and this amount of scraping can fall under the Copyright Directive 2001/29/EC and the Database Directive 96/9/EC.
Even if the content is public, EU law can restrict bulk extraction and republication. Especially if you’re mirroring a substantial part of the site or making it available through your own frontend.
Might be worth reconsidering what you’re pulling and how you’re using it, or atleast making sure it’s legal.
edit: I’m obviously not a lawer, this might have no problems related to that, but I would make sure if I were you.
Sloppy copy pasta of other people’s content to serve your ads.
That’s what is killing the internet.
Sir, you are polluting our internet, stap!
We need to bring back calling people slurs on the internet.
But Piefed is federated? Also it seems kind of dickish to simply copy content with the intent to host it yourself with ads.
Are you aware of the Piefed API? It’s provided specifically to allow building front-ends and bots while avoiding scrapping.
Why would you mirror, when you could federate?
Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could that they didn’t stop to think if they should.
What do you even mean?
Have you heard of Floof? It’s a cryptoshare claoudeservice from zink that unifies beek and fraw to make a new service called zwroak (pronounced croak)
I have forked Floof and integrated it with Qak on a b0rf backend. It’s called √πy (pronounced âèk)
Just a FYI: Qak was forked into wR8vl last week because the main developer had a racist meltdown on Blopr.
Mmmh, technobabble
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So it’s… A mirror of piefed.social with your own frontend?
Why?
Was looking for a hobby, something I could work on for a long time then eventually put ads. No pop ups just banner ads at the appropriate places
That you don’t see the ethical and moral problems with that plan is highly concerning.
It’s my own backend, written in FastAPI The frontend was just copied and upgraded.
Why don’t you just implement federation normally instead of taking this roundabout way of doing things? As long as your site contributes content back, and makes it clear where content is from, other projects like piefed and lemmy would be happy to have your project join the network.
Continuing like this will likely get you IP blocked from wherever you’re mirroring content from.
Also these platforms are open source. You are allowed to copy and modify things for your own projects, as long as you follow the basic rules in the license.
But you’re scraping piefed.social to fill your site with content so you can monetize it, while increasing hosting costs for piefed for your own gain.
Social media is the current hotly contested battle ground for hearts and minds for the next few generations and it looks like you’re experiencing what happens when you accidentally barge into it w good intentions from the people that want you to stay out.
20ish years ago people would have been idly curious at the most about your hobby; now they’re trying bully you into giving it up.
What kind of hobby is “injecting ads into soweone else’s community platform that you’ve rebranded as your own”?
