Its very cool.

Yeah its cool!

When we do that, it will be game changing.

Theres a book series, a lit rpg called tunnel rat that goes over a “post internet” as part of its lore. Its an interesting thought experiment. And I can see localized meshnets becoming a bit more popular.

With peertube and a city wide network, you stop having to worry about copyright as much.

Piefed auto-flags users it it thinks is bots and allows users to flag other users as potential AI bots. Its an interesting system. I like it so far but its on a system with less than 10k users. So not sure how the scale is going to work. Still its a step!

I wish there was a website that had like three major aggregators instead of just the one. The issue I come across is these sites all have something missing. For the fediverse observer, they sometimes do retro activity that doesn’t pop up until you look at the graph again.

What I can tell you anecdotally is i am seeing a lot more engagement with content faces are sticking around last couple of months. So I pulled the numbers from the aggregator that I know at least lets you audit the numbers. But its still not perfect.

Thanks! And yeah it sucks! Locally me and a couple of individuals are trying to create a real meshnet. Its going well and got DNS/speeds above 20mbps now haha. But its truely all human traffic.

It doesn’t solve this particular issue for anyone else but it is fun to just…throw something up without bot traffic.

Hell yeah

…are you ok?

Its kinda hard to extrapolate either way honestly. Its easy for me to say that 90+% of the traffic to my tiny home server is AI crawlers now. I have NO idea definitively for the others. When I made a python fix, it jailed quite a few IPs and now its not too much of an issue. But I did notice a couple of status servers like fedidb get incorrectly jailed.

So yeah. Fun times for admins.

Personally I think with ai crawlers, instances are coming up with their own ways of combatting the issue and the trackers are getting stuck in the crossfire. I have a few fediverse servers so some show up, some dont depending on the tracker.

Thats what I do. Piefed scheduled posts. Very nifty.

No idea but you can check here from the official sources and pulls: https://fediverse.observer/history

PEP 810
: Explicit lazy imports for faster startup times

Looks awesome!

I think we are too small to care about something like this. I can see a “bad” instance taking people off forever. But it would be nice to have for certain to have more people spread out.

I just pointed them over to mastodon.social, pixelfed, and some others. Andvi dont tell them its fediverse, its just another site that anyone can spin up. They can dig if they want to. One out of 4 initially stay. Some come back.

What helps is friends and family on the platform.

Unfortunately this is mostly an AI project :(

Agreed. Its federated. Let instances do thier thing. It gives us more options not less.

I know theres some work being done getting mastodon and peertube more integrated with lemmy/piefed so it may very well become more like the fediverse was envisioned.

Where you sign in one place and interact with everything the way you want to.

Theres already a couple. In a week this will be old news.