We all migrate to smaller websites try not to post outside drawing attention just to hide from the “Ai” crawlers. The internet seems dead except for the few pockets we each know existed away from the clankers
We all migrate to smaller websites try not to post outside drawing attention just to hide from the “Ai” crawlers. The internet seems dead except for the few pockets we each know existed away from the clankers
I have made a concerted effort over the last two or three years to de-urbanize my online activity. One thing I’ve noticed is that even small communities are affected by AI. Crawlers and spambots can cause a small site with limited resources to crumple under the weight of nonhuman traffic, a DDoS attack more or less. This makes it hard to self host a community.
While the fediverse helps to some degree it still suffers from copying the format of big social media sites. Lemmy is just a Reddit clone and Mastodon a Twitter clone, so the cultures of these communities mimic those of the big sites they emulate.