No, they are shutting down their publicly hosted infrastructure and say that their project is "finished" anyways, so it doesn't matter that much as a justification. But the main point about the post is the public facing infrastructure and how they lost motivation to run it.
What? They explicitly talk about shutting down their self-hosted infrastructure which includes two git services and other targets of AI scraping. Did you even read the post?
It makes a lot of sense. Both the git repos that they hosted and things like a RSS feed-reader are things that are the prime target for AI scrapers and the same time quite database query heavy on the backend so that the scraping really has a big impact on the costs of running these services.
And yes source-code is among what is the most targeted data to ingest by AI scrapers, mainly to train coding assistants but apparently it also helps LLMs to understand logic better.
The King for example looks Indian to you?
Yes and the reason they state sounds a lot like AI scraping made hosting public services such a PITA that they lost motivation to continue doing it. Lots of long running projects that used to require very little maintainance are now DDOSed by these scrapers.
The post is a bit low on details, but I strongly suspect this is a victim of AI scraping.
No, this isn't about individual persons turning bad or something silly like that. You can't have a little decentralization either, for economic reasons. Once you get large instances in a supposedly decentralized network these by necessity need to professionalize sooner or later. Which means they need to find investors and a way to gain income from it. And then the enshittification commences... it is naive to believe that you as the founder are immune to that and if you try to resist it, the investors and other staff will find a way to push you out.
I was thinking about activity tracking stuff like Wanderer or DiveDB... as my Flohmarkt instance would be also more outdoor stuff themed. But yes event management stuff like Mobilizon or Ganzio, or (non-federated) Lauti or Karrot might be an interesting option as well.
No one talks about only one possible alternative, but it is often not immediately obvious to laypersons why a defense mechanism is vital to have and can not be made a middle ground. Like for example there is no way to weaken end to end encryption a little bit to scan for CSAM, without breaking it entirely.
This assumes all these hundreds of pages are exactly the same and can be automated with bots without anyone noticing immediately.
There is a reason why spam on the Fediverse almost exclusively comes from a few large generic servers.
Maybe those European buyers were using the US/global page of ebay? The German ebay is an entirely different legal entity and (at least when I last used it) didn't interact with anything other than what happened on their website for Germany only. Maybe it works differently in Canada, no idea.
We have an !xmpp@slrpnk.net community here on Lemmy. Our SLRPNK instance also gives an XMPP account to every member automatically and hosts a Movim webclient for easy access.
XMPP is certainly more popular for private groups and 1:1 chatting so you will not find that many large public channels, but there is a search engine here: https://search.jabber.network/tags/
The JoinJabber project also has a curated list of recommended channels and communities: https://joinjabber.org/docs/faqs/rooms/