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AI crawlers cause Wikimedia(The umbrella organization of Wikipedia and a dozen or so other crowdsourced knowledge projects) Commons bandwidth demands to surge 50%. in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 2 points 21 hours ago

I don't know about stopping entirely. I built a pretty cool RAG system for internal use in my company, it very much facilitates navigating very large amounts of text data.

Online ‘Pedophile Hunters’ Are Growing More Violent — and Going Viral: With the rise of loosely moderated social media platforms, a fringe vigilante movement is experiencing a dangerous evolution. in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Reddit would be outraged about an 18 yo dating a 16 yo, though. Some people have really weird and unrealistic views on this

Internet forums are disappearing because now everything is Reddit and Discord. And that's worrying. in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Forgot about BGG! That one is amazing, too

Internet forums are disappearing because now everything is Reddit and Discord. And that's worrying. in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

I just stumble upon them using Kagi search and phind.com

Internet forums are disappearing because now everything is Reddit and Discord. And that's worrying. in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago (6 children)

Forums are still alive in ultra niche communities. My favorites: Badger and Blade for wet shaving, Snuffhouse for snuff tobacco, Quantnet for quantitative finance. All of these gather way better content and users than their Reddit counterpart, which usually devolves into memes and pic of the day stuff

What's a time when you felt like you woke up and the universe had just changed? in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Much lighter than the other comments, but waking up to the Luka Doncic trade was nuts