Post #2357978
2026-05-07 13:04 UTC
But the ongoing indiscriminate onslaught of AI bots on everything with an URL is just actively killing the web and its open nature. Websites, which were meant for the few human visitors, get crawled at rapid speed, open REST APIs are being overrun, the few SPARQL points out there get slaughtered by queries, causing downtimes, cost, and what not, actively killing those parts of the Web which have historically just been happy to be there, with little maintenance, across the years.
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@vrandecic@mas.to 2026-05-07 13:04
But now, if you don't pay protection money to a service such as Cloudfare or make sure you have the right load balancer, the AI bros will take you down. 3/5
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@jgordon@appdot.net 2026-05-07 13:15
@vrandecic@mas.to How well do old school static sites handle the demand?