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I really hope they die soon, this is unbearable…

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[–] early_riser@lemmy.world 37 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

It's already hard enough for self-hosters and small online communities to deal with spam from fleshbags, now we're being swarmed by clankers. I have a little Mediawiki to document my ~~deranged maladaptive daydreams~~ worldbuilding and conlanging projects, and the only traffic besides me is likely AI crawlers.

I hate this so much. It's not enough that huge centralized platforms have the network effect on their side, they have to drown our quiet little corners of the web under a whelming flood of soulless automata.

[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 13 points 4 hours ago

Anubis is supposed to filter out and block all those bots from accessing your webpage.

Iocaine, nepenthes, and/or madore's book of infinity are intended to redirect them into a maze of randomly generated bullshit, which still consumes resources but is intended to poison the bots' training data.

So pick your poison