

How do you know it’s “AI” scrappers?
I’ve have my server up before AI was a thing.
It’s totally normal to get thousands of bot hits and to get scraped.
I use crowdsec to mitigate it. But you will always get bot hits.
How do you know it’s “AI” scrappers?
I’ve have my server up before AI was a thing.
It’s totally normal to get thousands of bot hits and to get scraped.
I use crowdsec to mitigate it. But you will always get bot hits.
I have it on docker with two volumes, ./config and ./cache
I back up those before each update.
A bad Jellyfin update should not mess with your media folder in anyway. Though you should have backups of those aswell as a rule of thumb.
I’ve been using jellyfin for years.
My best recommendation is DELAY UPDATES and back up before you update.
I have a history of updates breaking everything so you should be careful about them.
All software recommends backing up before an update, but for really the shit is real, you really want to back up.
How does it differentiate an “AI crawler”, from any other crawler? Search engine crawler? Someone monitoring data to offer statistics? Archiving?
This is not good. They are most likely doing the crawling themselves and them selling the data to the best bidder. That bidder could obviously be openAI for all we know.
They just know that introducing the sentence “this is anti AI” a lot of people is not going to question anything.
So… Are there any cryptocurrencies that the owners hold in mass and are trying to get profit by selling them to users in a “pay to win” system?
Last time I checked bot IPFS and plebbit had those… Which is why I steered away from those projects.
I wonder how does that work with federation.
If a second instance does not have that restriction, is there any “legal” effect on the federated content?
You gotta love the transparency.
The transparency is needed to know if the server is actually costing $5000
Not that the server cost only $500 and the rest go to cocaine and hookers
I don’t need to keep track of my bill precisely, what I want is budget transparency.
I think one of the biggest obstacles in donations is lack of transparency of what’s going on with the donated money.
Nowadays I tend to only donate to projects that have full transparency on what the money is being used for.
I don’t know if it’s the case as the presented case is not an instance I use. But on general before donating any money is the first thing I look up, and if it’s not clear I just hold my money.
But it is known that donations usually cannot sustain projects, specially “user donations”. For a project to be able to have a steady and sizeable influx of money there need to be whale donators or corporations that donate to it. Relying on user donations will always mean a very little amount of money, and I don’t think that’s going to change as most people don’t have that much disposable income anyway.
I think p2p and true decentralization is the way to go. Don’t get me wrong, fediverse is great, but is not as much decentralized as “less centralized”, truly decentralized model should be p2p. I’ve said several times that the ess centralized" model have a critical failure point and that is that instances are under a lot of pressure, economic, legal and administrative. And we are burning people out and spending all their money, because it’s a model that relies in a few number of people taking that big burden.
I think a model that the burden is smaller and mor spread among the user base will be more resilient, at least on this aspect.
Also I take the change to put up a critique on domain costs, it’s not much, but it’s part of this topic and surely they should be cheaper, as domain cost is 90% speculation and very little labor cost. I don’t know if there’s any project to democratize domain names in the clearnet, but there should be one.
I know plenty of small groups with their own webpage dealing with most of that. It’s not that big of a deal.
I selfhost my own searxng, both labor and electricity cost are so small they are negligible.
My point is that if I am to be in al “alternative” economy is not to make rich a cool San Francisco dude instead of Jeff Bezos, is to not make rich anyone at my expenses. When I ask for something different I do not ask for making rich different people, I ask for a system that does not make rich anyone.
For instance Lemmy. Lemmy does not ask for subscriptions nor have ads. Voluntary donations are more than enough to keep it on float. Other people like Kagi CEO or some other CEOs like that would ask a subscription fee for lemmy and guilt trip people into thinking it’s necessary, when it’s not.
But there is free lunch.
That argument I’ve seen it used precisely by adventure capitalist targeting rich alternative people to guilt trip them into their services. When those services could perfectly be free or cheaper without relying in big enterprises.
For this instance, instead of making some people rich by paying music hosting services a p2p network could be offered. If I would me making music I would 100% just offer it by torrent and be done with hosting costs.
Other of my favorite examples is Kagi search engine, which has used this same tactic to convince a lot of people to pay for something that is the same as a self hosted searxng instance.
You have to think about disposable income, after taxes, rent/housing, food and all other essential services.
This is a leisure/personal project expense. And the disposable income for that tend to be 30% of net income at most.
It would be more like a 2%. Which may not sound like much. But it’s same as saying you can do 50 things a year and this is one of those 50 things.
Anyway, I still think that price tag is too much, I don’t think there would be a lot of people really willing to spend that for a service others provide for free with a bigger platform, or that you can do it by yourself cheaper if you want to go to an alternative route.
Once again I think it fits a spot only for alternative rich people.
I stopped using facebook years before fediverse even existed.
I think the facebook public is not the same as the fediverse public.
The most developed fediverse apps are the ones that clone sites that the geeks used to roam, like twitter and reddit.
When people develope something like this, usually is because themselves want to use it. I would assume that, like me, not many people want to use a facebook-like site.
I wouldn’t say it’s a bargain for the artist when there’s plenty of services that offer that for free.
From a purely money perspective a small artist would probably lose money here while it may earn money in places like Tidal, which have much more audience.
Let’s not lie people. It’s not a bargain. $10 a month is a lot for that service. Maybe from a “San Francisco” or other rich American city that is Pocket change, but from most of the world $10 a month is a considerable expense.
Other thing is if you want to morally support ot because you really like that model for whatever reason.
To be honest, I don’t much see the point. Of you are going for the complicated route (aka not using established platforms) are you are even considering self hosting, putting out your own website to sell music is easier and cheaper. And it’s actually very common for artists to have their own website. You can find static hosting for a few bucks.
That seems aimed to create a very closed echo chamber.
Yep, I think the same.
I know that at a technical level would be hard to have common communities among instances. But it should be a goal, as it would add resiliance to the project.
Isn’t there already a mobile app?
Developers can focus on whatever they seem appropriate.
But I think content discover and community (lack of) are the biggest issues of peertube right now.
I hop once in a while to the main peertube site and I can never find anything remotely interesting to watch. There may be some good content, but it’s impossible to find.
I second the N100. It’s what I use and it’s ridiculously powerful for the small amount of power it drains. And barely needs refrigeration.
I don’t think they are actually zionist or pro-genocide. But they are definitely not good mods, and they just didn’t handle it in a good way. It’s not the first time I’ve seen problems with that community moderation team, they tend inho to powertrip. I suppose they are friends or the same people as feddit.org admins and that’s why they defend them so much. But I don’t think that moderation team is up to the task of moderating a big community.
Nothing wrong with it, moderation is hard, very hard. And not everyone is qualified for it. They should just step back. Or just close the community if they are so heavy censored by their country legislation.
Do you have a proper robots.txt file?
Do they do weird things like invalid url, invalid post tries? Weird user agents?
Millions of times by the same ip sound much more like vulnerability proving than crawler.
If that’s the case fail to ban or crowdsec. Should be easy to set up a rule to ban an inhumane number of hits per second on certain resources.