Hexbear user since a couple days of their launch before federation was a thing. The instances you’re knocking are older than every other instance, and the defeds were typically preemptive to the point where people on other instances usually have no fucking clue what they’re talking about.

Always makes this stuff bewildering, but we’ll be here with you or not.

Been stewing at it for longer than you have, buddy.

You’re not correcting anything, dude.

The entire point here is that the bots are being disrespectful.

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They’re not trying to do that in particular, but on a site like lemmy the same content might be linked a dozen different ways:

https://lemmy.world/comment/25863752 https://lemmy.world/post/51995780/25862545 https://lemmy.world/post/51995780/25860801 https://lemmy.world/post/51995780/25858204 https://lemmy.world/post/51995780/25857153 https://lemmy.world/post/51995780/25857033

It’s not necessarily the big companies themselves doing it? But, there’s a push right now to scrape as much data as possible to feed the training of the AI models, and if your business model is entirely based on selling that data you don’t really care who you’re going to piss off. So, in turn these new scraper bots basically behave in the same way that attack bots do where they’ll be behind VPNs and switch IPs and stuff if you block them.

Ordinary search crawlers are throttled and they do stuff like respect your robots.txt and sitemap.xml (directives that tell the crawler what links to scan or not and how frequently). These naive crawlers hit everything at max speed, and on a content-heavy site like lemmy that can easily take out a server.

They’re simply not censoring it. The BBC already got thrashed for this bullshit.

This is a recipe for blindly hosting CSAM.

I end up with issues with it because I do a lot of graphic design which means I have a lot of fonts. So, it ends up rebuilding its subtitle font cache for little reason every time I start it. Can at least disable that though.

Krassenstein’s just a grifter of another stripe.

We have card payments at the pumps, and the garbage can thing was very much a weird NYC thing.

This is an industry wide thing for the web. There’s a pivot to attempting to do AEO, or “answer engine optimization,” on top of the traditional search engine optimization. But, as it’s so new and hard to gauge the results of we may all just be bullshitting ourselves.

Nah.

https://youtu.be/7gztJxEL610

Gets us on the other end too as we do newsletters and other web work for small orgs, so our poor little web servers basically get DDOS’d by the scanners when we send out a newsletter with a bunch of backlinks.

Your email service’s scanner might, because some of them go through every link and check what’s on the page.

Might’ve missed this with my edit timing:

This snarky comment is the one that actually shows what you need in full though.

Nah, have too much on my plate. Just saw this pop up while browsing hot, and it’s a common design pattern without an obvious solution.

This snarky comment is the one that actually shows what you need in full though.

You can set the grid item to display: flex, they’re not totally mutually exclusive (one can be within the other). Kinda hard to blindly walk through stuff like this without seeing the HTML/CSS though.

One of those cases where browser dev tools are your friend as it should only need a few properties, you can poke and prod to see how they land, and you can see whether you’re getting a 100% height fill on the parent.