Everyone, go find some indieweb sites. Reminiscent of 90s, there are minimal websites with visitor counters and guestbooks.
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Dude! We said we wouldn't completely fuck up the Internet until next year!
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.
We also cannot just block these websites, there are just too many of them, i hope some effective alternatives to search engine (or perhaps a modern community made index) will be developed soon
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.
And it has to be fast. If it takes too long people will leave before it gives results, and thats also expensive.
Start a repo then.
Hopefully ai bot traffic isn't surpassing human users yet on the Fediverse.
You're absolutely right...
What he actually means is “Cloudflare is actively prioritizing bot traffic over human traffic now”
Oh, so dead internet is, in fact, the plan. Wonderful.
Yeah but it happened a year earlier than planned!
Ahead of schedule you say? The shareholders will be thrilled!
*the shareholders do not use said Internet, themselves.
TIL: Turns out ReptilianCleric is the only actual human left on the Internet. Beep boop bop
It's not totally dead, as the Paris catacombs are not totally dead if there are a couple of tourists
Yup. Followed by the AI surveillance state. The Stasi has been digitized and never sleeps!
You know, god bless the bots because they're probably soaking up at least some surveillance watts.
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.
Just pay for more cloud compute that will fix it...
Would you like to know more? That's gonna cost ya.
Oh yeah, 100% true, “amount of traffic does not even remotely map to amount of actual work being done especially on such a horrifically inefficient system” was a point I meant to bring up but I sprung a leak in a blood vessel from sheer rage before I could even get there. Thank you.
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I wonder what happens when the bots are just hitting other bots. Bots leaving comments on bot sites, etc.
I need to make craigslist for bots
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
Ya fuck at this rate I'm gonna have to go outside to talk to a real person before the end of summer.
That's not true. I'll always be here to talk.
I'll. Always. Be here.
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Yeah didn't B2B traffic jump over 50% a loong time ago already?
It seeks every week someone says this happened. I thought it happened forever ago.
You would think they could only steal the same content so many times
I'm so sick of these bubble pump articles. Just fucking pop already so we can go on about our lives.
The bubble will not be fun for us either.
The bubble already sucks and it popping will suck differently.
Time for an alternative? Let the bots have the current Internet, we get a new, better, and more secure one.
Yep, different protocols is it. Gopher, Gemini protocol etc. Start reading up!
How would bots be kept out of it?
We could have a file, like robots.txt, that tell them they aren't allowed. They would respect it, surely.
Funny how the internet went to shit when protocols were thrown out of the window and companies instead used their financial weight to 'solve' everything.
That's a good question for which I have no good answer. It's clearly something that would have to be dealt with.
Reading about the bot presence online feels a lot like reading a horrific eulogy for the internet.
Most humans masturbate more than they sex. Perhaps this is natural maturation of the internet?
You’re absolutely right— and here’s the thing— it happened! Bots get it done 😎
(/s I don’t know what other tells bots have)
freely and unregulated slop moving around
Our timeline's Rache Bartmoss is bound to act sooner or later.