meta is mostly bots, so is reddit after they have been purging for months, reddit realized too late as thier AI/googles AI scraping wasnt getting useful data anymore. that is why they sorta laid off directly sitewide banning.
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actually thier overmoderation, that destroyed the userbase. META, REDDIT both heavily banned users they cant datamined effectively(because API, PROXIES VPNs,,,etc), because they in an ironic twist think they are all bots, now its just all bots.
now? more like a decade or more ago
It may have felt like that, but I will trust the numbers from the company whose function heavily involves monitoring this stuff.
Can't he see all that porn traffic?
The porn sites are usually blocklisted by AI companies because they don't want their LLMs and image gens to generate porn.
except grok.
Now I kind of want to see a bot being trained on 100% porn images (amd 99% of them are at least 80% naked) in various situations and then order it to generate a human with clothes in an office setting.
Will it generate an office porn or the regular joe in an office? :D
AI porn is a thing in most non-PH sites, but it probably uses a different model?
that sounds interesting tbh
Dude! We said we wouldn't completely fuck up the Internet until next year!
Until AFTER the big AI company IPOs, eh? Well, sucks to suck
Everyone, go find some indieweb sites. Reminiscent of 90s, there are minimal websites with visitor counters and guestbooks.
Webrings as well?
Actually yes, indie web sites do organize webrings.
How, uh... how do we find them? I'm presuming Google isn't really an option, since they drive traffic in the opposite way. Got a link to a list of them or something?
I found some sweet places through, ironically, YouTube videos talking about dead internet and how there are people passionate abot old alive internet.
Neocities.org and theindieweb.com are good places to start. Also seqrch for web revival.
Neocities
I'm guessing since they're reminiscent of the 90s, maybe Yellow Pages?
I haven't tried them at all but kagi claims to focus on smaller sites first, which would more likely include what they're referencing
Thank ya. I remember my favorite times with the internet being those when I had a list of small sites I'd check each day. I'd like to rebuild that :)
I heard this, what, 6 months ago, from someone else.
Over half of websites served to you by enshittified search engines are written by machines, to hit results.
They will rephrase the question as many ways as possible to hit the search engine , then explain why someone would want to know that question, then give you a half assed answer to your question.
Previously the answer was on the search page. Now, only the AI one is, the results make you all click and search now as not before.
That's not by accident. They are forcing us to use AI. So called ai, llm bullshit.
We need our own Open Source Search Engines. We could do that, I could even help on that one.
Open source search engine will not solve this problem. The AI generated websites will simply optimize to be shown on it.
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The problem isnt the search engine, tge problem is the search index. The index gets big and expensive to maintain quickly. Ive mostly switched to Kagi at this point.
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Oh, so dead internet is, in fact, the plan. Wonderful.
The Internet is pretty fucked, we might as well just call it and go home. Oh wait
Yeah but it happened a year earlier than planned!
Yup. Followed by the AI surveillance state. The Stasi has been digitized and never sleeps!
except now they get useless data because they now just datamine bots, who are datamining each other.
That’s what digital ID is for! To correlate the real humans activity. The Flock video surveillance can then be linked to your real world movements along with digital currency to track your buying habits! Your phone and wireless earbuds to listen for keywords a rat you out to the government! What a wonderful utopia!
Feeling free yet?
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says agentic traffic wasn’t expected to eclipse real people until next year
... which means, it already happened a year or two ago and it is much, much worse than anyone can imagine
The amount of malware from these bots is insane, guys.
It's fucking up the internet in ways most don't understand.
Ya fuck at this rate I'm gonna have to go outside to talk to a real person before the end of summer.
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Ugh, what pathetic reporting, taking him at his word—that’s not what his own numbers say! It’s not agentic traffic, it’s just all bot traffic! And what’s the number-one cause of bot traffic right now?
AI scrapers, NOT agentic traffic!
They’re taking “wow, our scrapers are destroying the internet (see Anubis, “Stop Externalizing Your Costs Directly Into My Face”, etc) and spinning it into “wow, look how powerful agentic garbage is,” while carefully hiding the actual agentic numbers so they can pump this stupid bubble even more!
Lies, lies, lies, it’s all lies all the way down…
I mean have you used an agent? They are fucking dumb and make a ton of queries to get anything done.
A lot of times their training is lacking in whatever I'm trying to get them to do, so I have to direct them to read particular web pages in order to have a clue what they're supposed to be parroting.
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