this post was submitted on 13 May 2025
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Instances can close registrations if there are too many bots, and somehow it could be okay. Bots aren't impossible to fight, the problem is that capitalist platforms support or ignore the issue since for them is somewhat convenient driving engagement... Or whatever ad-revenue system is behind that.
Yeah accounts are needed to post I'm talking just the AIs scraping content and them not respecting robots.txt.