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AI crawlers, fetchers are blowing up websites; Meta, OpenAI are worst offenders (theregister.com)

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AI crawlers, fetchers are blowing up websites; Meta, OpenAI are worst offenders (theregister.com)
Lots of meta discussion
I see lots of meta discussion, but very little discussion about news items on lobste.rs. All these meta issues strike me as Maserati Problems. The core value proposition of Lobste.rs is a better place to have discussions but no one seems to be discussing.... Whatdaya say, how about some more dis...
Meta: What are paywalls?
* Flag: spam? * New tag: "paywall content"? * Something else?
Meta: 'nodejs' tag
Hi Lobsters, As you probably know, node.js is a framework for developing server applications on javascript. It is a relevant piece of software [that attracts many developers](http://thenewstack.io/javascript-popularity-surpasses-java-php-stack-overflow-developer-survey/) and, if only for that, me...
Meta: There are fewer options for flagging stories than for downvoting comments
In the past couple days, I've seen several users point out that there's no way to flag story as incorrect, whereas we do have that option for comments.
Meta: add space tag
It seems that space-related news regularly gets posted. Whether it's a NASA-related tech article, a space-related discovery, or astronomical or solar system science news. Generally these sorts of articles are posted under the generic "science" tag, but I think having a "space" will be useful as a di...
Meta: could we consider banning self-promotion?
I never get a good feeling when someone posts a link to their own blog here. At a minimum it feels like a misalignment of incentives, and when it happens enough over time it seems indistinguishable from spam. Even if you're really proud of an idea you had and think it's topical and interesting I thi...
The mind-blowing machines that stamp millions of metal parts (youtube.com)
Are there any websites or communities focused on metaphysics?
It seems like many people have recently been using AI to develop metaphysics-related products and have achieved good commercial success.
AI crawlers haven't learned to play nice with websites (theregister.com)
List of 100k websites Meta scrapes data from to train its AI models (dropsitenews.com)
I built a site to surface mind-blowing, underrated websites (offscopes.com)
Mind Blowing Websites Hiding in Plain Sight (offscopes.com)
List Reveals Websites Meta Is Scraping of Copyrighted Content to Train Its AI (dropsitenews.com)
A New List Reveals Top Websites Meta Is Scraping of Copyrighted Content (dropsitenews.com)
AI crawlers are destroying websites in neverending hunt for any and all content (theregister.com)
AI web crawlers are destroying websites in their never-ending hunger for content (theregister.com)
AI web crawlers are destroying websites in their never-ending content hunger (theregister.com)
Meta To Charge Advertisers a Fee To Offset Europe's Digital Taxes (meta.slashdot.org)
Meta will begin charging advertisers a 2-5% "location fee" to offset digital services taxes imposed by several European countries, including the UK, France, Italy, Spain, Austria, and Turkey. Reuters reports: The fee, for image or video ads delivered on Meta platforms including WhatsApp click-to-mes...