• anyhow2503@lemmy.world
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    29 days ago

    Watch people unironically celebrate FOSS developers running into financial issues from bot traffic, because they don’t like Gnome shell.

    Wait a second. Is this just Lunduke gaslighting people again, like the last time all the idiots were saying that Gnome was going to go bankrupt within a year?

      • klangcola@reddthat.com
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        29 days ago

        I imagine AI scrapers have a lot to do with the massively increased hosting costs. I’m assuming Anubis et al didnt fix all their bot traffic issues

            • rah@hilariouschaos.comOPEnglish
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              29 days ago

              That’s not GNOME-specific. klangcola@reddthat.com is saying GNOME have experienced “massively increased hosting costs” but there’s no mention of increased hosting costs in the article I linked to, massive or otherwise, and as far as I know, nobody has mentioned any increase in the context of GNOME, hence my question.

              • FooBarrington@lemmy.world
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                29 days ago

                Given that hosting costs have objectively increased across the board due to AI scraping, and the GNOME project just introduced these changes, it is obviously sensible to assume that GNOMEs hosting costs have increased too.

                • rah@hilariouschaos.comOPEnglish
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                  29 days ago

                  it is obviously sensible to assume

                  I disagree. There’s no need to make assumptions. And even if there were, this does not seem like a sensible assumption to make given that the GNOME Foundation’s financial woes long predate the rise in AI scrapers.