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1. cush · 1789661791 · focus · HN ↗

   Providing kickbacks to the repos being scraped would be a good way to help fund open source projects and pay creators like streaming services do. Seems like they're headed in this direction - it would be a massive product differentiator over GH

   1. latexr · 1789662024 · focus · HN ↗

      Three minutes after kickbacks were announced there would be a flurry of new repos being created with bots repeatedly scraping them just to get those kickbacks.

      1. anamexis · 1789662220 · focus · HN ↗

         Presumably whoever is doing the scraping would need to pay, to get rate limits conducive to scraping.

         1. cush · 1789668000 · focus · HN ↗

            Correct

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