2025-03-20 22:00 • 129 words

Bots are nuisances you have to live with on the open web. I've just banned an IP adress that fetched my feed twice every minute. Now, my site is small and unimportant enough that this does not bother me too much, but for independent people who are trying to build a honest little business (like a code forge that is not owned by big tech). Such behavior has already depleted the commons and now just recklessly sucks up private resources, read Drew DeVaults well justified rant Please stop externalizing your costs directly into my face; I'd underline every word. It feels like living through another gilded age, the big tech billionaires being the new robber barons.

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