You can still scrape Reddit without the api. Main reason was to prevent people using 3rd party apps.

Just barely better than farage’s ratings wtf is wrong with this country

Maybe stop sticking your head in the sand? 🤷

Yes we’re missing two things

• Anonymous ID / Reputation system to tell it’s a human
• Community-run moderation. So some chronically online sadsack can’t ban you from a significant portion of lemmy for life because you disagreed with them.