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
AI crawlers don’t even need to crawl individual instances. If someone wanted to scrape Lemmy, it would be way more efficient to simply spin up their own instance and let federation do its thing. Federation is literally a built in way to mass distribute content to a bunch of different servers. So just spin up an instance, set it to not respect delete requests, (so you still get the deleted posts and comments), and scrape it locally. The entire thing could be set up in like 20 minutes, and it would allow for passive data collection instead of requiring active scrapers that run constantly.