Comment by sneak
The fundamental failure of this is that you can’t publish data to the web and not publish data to the web. If you make things public, the public will use it.
It’s ineffective. (And furry sex-subculture propaganda pushed by its author, which is out of place in such software.)
The misguided parenthetical aside, this is not about resources being public, this is about bad actors accessing those resources in a highly inefficient and resource-intensive manner, effectively DDOS-ing the source.