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danaris on March 20, 2025 | parent | context | favorite | on: FOSS infrastructure is under attack by AI companie...

Scrapers have an incentive to take all data.

If you put some data in a central repository, they will take it.

Then they will go and DDoS the rest of the Internet in order to take all the rest of the data.

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