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there's a difference between rate limiting the amount of posts you make (to avoid spam) and rate limiting the amount of posts you read

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not really. rate limiting is rate limiting. Its done to prevent abuse whether in the form of spam or unauthorised scraping

yes really. rate limiting reading to average users is completely different than rate limiting writing. the average user doesn't post, so it's already impacting a completely different demographic

Exactly.

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