Me on textlog Evgeny Morozov has pointed out that using ai through chat interfaces is based on an individualised and privatised model, which (heavily paraphrased) is inherently anti-social. With an extra layer now of people making small per…
Reddit dont mind AI scraping. They’ve got licensing deals to sell content to AI companies. They just don’t want free open access anymore. If a site wants to limit scraping it can just rate limit their feeds (which reddit already does)
On Reddit ending RSS feeds, this stuff about “large-scale scraping and automated abuse” is an excuse, right? Presumably they just want to keep all their (or their users) content for their AI licensing deals? https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/3…
I've finally became an ARPA member of SDF, a non-profit public-access UNIX system running continuously since 1987. I give a history from Ted Uhlemann's 300-baud Apple IIe BBS to today's NetBSD network of DEC Alphas and Opterons; a tour of t…
My general sense is that s lot of the corporate/closed web is offering it less but the indie/real web is using it more. So probably less overall but more activity in a smaller group, including a lot of hobbyists making readers and tools
Try rss bridge on pika pods https://www.pikapods.com/apps#rss It’ll do all the hosting for cheap, then add the bridges you want from the whitelist https://github.com/RSS-Bridge/rss-bridge/tree/master/bridges