Post by @Tock@corteximplant.com
Running a Mastodon server is becoming increasingly problematic due to GenAI.
There’s multiple different things happening, including but not limited to:
- very aggressive scraping of user content and block evasion, with the resource costs that come with it
- AI agents aggressively trying to register accounts and evade restrictions
- rising cost of RAM - Mastodon is memory hungry, RAM is really expensive now
It’s odd to experience first hand, it’s like being consumed by.. a void.
@GossiTheDog This is why they want multiple gigawatt data centers. The finishing blow to the open internet. A crushing weight no amateur or independent site can survive.
