It really doesn’t seem like that’s the case. It doesn’t even makes much sense. What do tou think was being AI scrapped? The source code?
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poVoq@slrpnk.net 3 days ago
The post is abit low on details, but I strongly suspect this is a victim of AI scraping.
daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
poVoq@slrpnk.net 2 days ago
It makes a lot of sense. Both the git repos that they hosted and things like a RSS feed-reader are things that are the prime target for AI scrapers and the same time quite database query heavy on the backend so that the scraping really has a big impact on the costs of running these services.
And yes source-code is among what is the most targeted data to ingest by AI scrapers, mainly to train coding assistants but apparently it also helps LLMs to understand logic better.
daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
First, source code is on github.
Second, RSS aggregators are self hostable, not a service provided by the dev. The dev would have not issues of a public instance of ttrss hosted by someone gets scrapped.
Third, RSS aggregators doesn’t really tend to be public facing. Due to their personal nature they don’t tend to be open. They are more account based.
Sorry, I really don’t see the case here.
poVoq@slrpnk.net 2 days ago
What? They explicitly talk about shutting down their self-hosted infrastructure which includes two git services and other target of AI scraping. Did you even read the post?
fodor@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
Well, they’ve also been maintaining the software since 2005. They said why they’re closing shop, so why not take their words at face value? They have no obvious reason to lie.
Many of us have started and maintained projects and then moved on when our lives changed. That is just normal.
poVoq@slrpnk.net 2 days ago
Yes and the reason they state sounds a lot like AI scraping made hosting public services such a PITA that they lost motivation to continue doing it. Lots of long running projects that used to require very little maintainance are now DDOSed by these scrapers.