This is the publisher punishing researchers for their own market failure.
If the software is not legally available in Egypt at a price affordable to academics, they should pirate it and publish in a journal that’s not part of this exploitative racket.
This post would really benefit from a little more background information before diving into the breathless appeal for help.
So angry this isn’t even satire.
Trail of Tears of Joy
It was taken out of the API about a year ago if I recall correctly.
It’s a good thing because people tried to use it for moderation decisions like Reddit, but it’s even more of a useless riggable metric on Lemmy.
So the community decided we’re better off without it.
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