The End of the Fediverse
It all comes down to money and availability.
You, whether you like it or not, are a valuable resource, and so is all your content and your users' content. There is no law preventing AI from combing through your site, and it will.
Meta's AI already makes micro-instances and uses Mozilla Firefox to browse sites, preventing people from blocking a user agent. Their AI can even register and join your community, and CAPTCHAs are not a problem. They are already exploring piggybacking off their apps — think Tor, but for Meta — and soon even consumer IPs will not be a safe bet.
Resistance is futile.
Locking down the Fediverse means people cannot know if your community is one where they will be welcomed until after they join — assuming you even have registration open.
If worse comes to worse, AI can simply launch their own Fedi site, joining the network, and scraping content by Federating. The very thing that makes the Fediverse, the Fediverse..
This is what killed community forums. We are seeing this now within the Fediverse.
It all came down to money and availability: who has it and who does not.
#Fediverse #ActivityPub #Mastodon #Misskey #PixelFed #PeerTube #AI #ArtificialIntelligence
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