hey so what ARE the ethics of like, sayyyy, scraping the #エゾタヌキ (ezo tanuki, one of the two japanese subspecies) tag on twitter so i can collect pictures of tanukis and make a tanuki bot for fedi?
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Tanuki
@Felthry right exactly. i could save a link back to the tweet at the very least, this assumes twitter would stay alive
i'm just wondering how stuff like the fox bot works. foxes are a lot more common to see on the internet though.