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i make many things. i am mostly joking although i am completely serious. i am taller than you.

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molly0xfff , to random
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Fighting bots is fighting humans.

One advantage to working on freely-licensed projects for over a decade is that I was forced to grapple with this decision far before mass scraping for AI training.

leon ,
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@molly0xfff I’ve got a blog post in the works about this but there’s a third option we should be considering:

Making it more expensive to download and parse by rejecting the corporate-friendly facism of minimalism and plaintext and re-embracing the creative possibilities of the multimedia web.

If a blog post was the same rough size as a YouTube video and required a scraper to understand a complex css layout and rich interactive context the scraping difficulty and the possibilities for unique, luxurious creation go through the roof in a way that cannot be replicated or co-opted by corps.

I say it’s time to discard the markdown web and for the dawn of the indie baroque.

leon ,
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@molly0xfff with YouTube and TikTok so massive, I don’t believe we need to be anywhere near as concerned with bandwidth as we were when flash intros stalked the earth.

And if a blog post isn’t worth a 20 second load, is it worth a 30 minute read?

lowqualityfacts , to random
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Incredible.
https://patreon.com/lowqualityfacts

leon ,
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@lowqualityfacts that was true until last year when researchers at CERN discovered the sentence “i’m the alphabet”, which contains all the letters of ‘the alphabet’

molly0xfff , to random
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the team behind Critical Role just launched its own subscription membership service called "Beacon"

pretty cool to see a creative team trying out a new model to give them so much control over their own content/platform

leon ,
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@molly0xfff it's actually easier than it sounds nowadays; aws has productised and platformised both twitch and prime video and will happily sell you either or both, at rock bottom prices. it's not exactly install wordpress easy but it’s no longer 'need at least five specialists’ hard

lowqualityfacts , to random
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Wow, you learn something new about steel every day.
https://patreon.com/lowqualityfacts

leon ,
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@lowqualityfacts thats why steelix and vaporeon are star crossed lovers

lowqualityfacts , to random
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I'm curious to hear your thoughts on Robert's take here.

leon ,
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@lowqualityfacts i think his favourite pokemon is raichu

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