As someone who has tried that effort to do scraping from Fandom, it’s certainly an experience - the HTML is truly nightmarish and definitely written in a way to make scraping as hard as possible (and potentially even programmatically obfuscated, too)

We are so unbelievably fucked it’s not even funny anymore.

Eh, it also helps that it’s from a recognisable brand that people already understand. Decentralised social networks have a long way to go to meet the elevator-pitch test, as it were.

Not to say that it makes it any less bad, but just that it’s at the very least understandable - I can easily see the “average person” saying “I want to leave Twitter” and just picking something is relatively similar, with a single logon page that just works out of the gate.

I’m still a huge fan of LibraryThing (http://librarything.com/), especially with its embed functionality so I can embed it into my site