Post by @noodlemaz@mstdn.games
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.
@grumpasaurus @GossiTheDog man this is exactly it isn't it.
I just watched a bit of YT earlier that was about people just... Not being able to read now (esp in the US) and AI making it all worse.
Sigh.
@noodlemaz @grumpasaurus @GossiTheDog
People are having this problem everywhere, not just or especially in the US.
A few weeks ago, they released the data of school performance worldwide, and there's a marked decline everywhere. But everyone keeps arguing at the local level, ignoring the global trend. It's really weird.