RE: https://mastodon.social/@marijn/117474471600455161
The irony is that the bots *need* the good kind of web. Crawling and caching would at least solve the traffic problem. I’m not sure why they don’t do that. Several companies could even share data in this area.
I'm seriously wondering where we are going with this. It's becoming almost impossible to just independently host something without constantly battling waves of bots and/or paying for a lot of wasted bandwidth. At some point, that kind of internet—the only good kind, really—is goi
Mastodon.socialMarijn (@[email protected])I'm seriously wondering where we are going with this. It's becoming almost impossible to just independently host something without constantly battling waves of bots and/or paying for a lot of wasted bandwidth. At some point, that kind of internet—the only good kind, really—is going to just wither away because few people want that kind of bother.