It's an AI dystopia where everywhere that isn't locked down gets DDOSED by AI scrapers and the only things left in open access is the spam the AIs write themselves.

The end of unlimited financing means they can’t subsidize anymore and need to figure out how to monetize

Uhh interesting take. But would we feel the impacts that fast?

I mean you could argue it’s been in the works since Powell rapidly hiked rates from the zero bound to 4%. Seems overdue to me, there’s some sudden urgency now though

Yeh something seems to be happening

Because bot scrapers are spamming everyone server's to steal all the data on it to train AI LLMs.

Yeah. Lots of scraping for LLM training.

Ohhh that makes sense

The trend still bulling ahead, this is the consequence of Ai. The walls will continue to grow, more platforms will become tightly controlled silos, and the open internet will slowly disappear. The web is bifurcating into the old and the new. The old systems cannot work in a web where you have no way at all to prove that someone is human. You have to KYC everybody or deal with a constantly growing proportion of fraud and bots... and even when you KYC you will still only slow what is inevitable. Only a key based internet can remain open so that you can know that you are talking or interacting with the same entity, and only a push based payment system is compatible with a world where you could be interacting with an Ai as easily as a real human. Gave a talk about this a couple years ago, and so far - for better or worse - the trend is fully intact. View quoted note →

they did this with solid starts, a website that was a great resource for parents to feed solids foods to their baby. it was so nice to be able to just look stuff up but not anymore 😔

This has severely ramped up in the last few years and yes, is reaching a fever pitch.

Vote against it my navigating away and denying them data and add revenue.

It’s not just you. The walled gardens are turning into fortresses. Data is the new oil, and they don’t want a drop escaping without extracting every bit of value from it. Decentralized protocols like Nostr are the antidote open, permissionless, and censorship-resistant. The more they tighten their grip, the more people will look for a way out. Hi max 🤟🏴‍☠️😉

Yes. Don’t want to have an account or an app to flush a toilet.

This could be seen as a positive for nostr. Since there is a lot of spam on nostr and it is open, that could act as a defense against llm scrappers to some extent. WOT, page rank etc, could still be used internally to identify valid contacts.

Aww buddy, its SO bad. Especially if you use a VPN, then services that are still semi-open (like reddit) throw the walls up too. Most searches I do provide 2 pages of walled gardens. I don't have an account in most places either, so its surreal not to have access to information. Sure, I could create accounts everywhere, but at this point ITS THE PRINCIPLE!

Its has become very difficult to use YT

the trend only accelerates

Welcome to the era of bad OPSEC and no privacy, Max. I'm also fighting this by using Free Software and GNU/Linux.

This. The interest is becoming virtually useless.

It's hard to be private online. I made this identity to be exactly that. There are steps a person can take though. Linux Mint is quite a good Operating System for a daily driver especially for someone who doesn't want to constantly tinker. Some would argue that Mac is actually more secure, but something about Linux feels right to me.

Mac is weaponized proprietary BSD really, all things considered. Like Windows, Mac has backdoors that devastate OPSEC. I'm a FOSS user too, so I know what that's about to some extent.