I rebuilt my blog's cache. Bots are the audience now
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I rebuilt my blog's cache. Bots are the audience now
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Re: I rebuilt my blog's cache. Bots are the audience now
#2Personally, I think this is a good idea. But the core problem is this:
How is a newcomer supposed to build reputation now?
Without exaggerated business promises or capital, basic online reputation usually depends on writing. In fact, my own first step into freelancing came because someone found the articles on my Korean blog interesting.
So the question is: if the subscribers are bots, what benefit do they actually give me?
If bots become the readers, then what matters is whether they can provide any kind of symbolic capital or real capital. I can build caching with Redis without much difficulty, but I worry that if this continues, the result may simply be that LLMs learn from my writing while no benefit returns to me.
People write partly to organize their thoughts, but also partly to gain symbolic capital. That is one reason why I write my own posts instead of using an LLM to write them for me.
Re: I rebuilt my blog's cache. Bots are the audience now
#3Why do I get just an empty page?
Re: I rebuilt my blog's cache. Bots are the audience now
#4Personally, I think this is a good idea. But the core problem is this: How is a newcomer supposed to build reputation now? Without exaggerated business promises or capital, basic online reputation usually depends on writing. In fact, my own first step into freelancing came because someone found the articles on my Korean blog interesting. So the question is: if the subscribers are bots, what benefit do they actually g…
What's worse, is they train on your content, and very often you don't even get an attribution link. So the end user never even knows it was your site that provided the information and you never even get a single clickthrough. It's not like the SERPs where someone would click through, read your site, hopefully find it interesting and useful and come back.
It's going to be a serious problem and I've already seen sites that are down 90% in traffic simply because AI is scraiping them, answering the questions themselves and never providing a linkback.
Re: I rebuilt my blog's cache. Bots are the audience now
#5Personally, I think this is a good idea. But the core problem is this: How is a newcomer supposed to build reputation now? Without exaggerated business promises or capital, basic online reputation usually depends on writing. In fact, my own first step into freelancing came because someone found the articles on my Korean blog interesting. So the question is: if the subscribers are bots, what benefit do they actually g…
>How is a newcomer supposed to build reputation now
Dead internet manifest.
Re: I rebuilt my blog's cache. Bots are the audience now
#6> Not because I expect a person in Singapore to shave 200ms off their pageload, but because the next request for that page is more likely to come from a retrieval system than a browser, and the request after that, and the one after that.
Why do I care if I shave off 200ms from a crawler's request, instead of a human's?
Re: I rebuilt my blog's cache. Bots are the audience now
#7Why do I get just an empty page?
Caching gone wrong..
(Works for me)
Re: I rebuilt my blog's cache. Bots are the audience now
#8I simply block all AI crawlers with a user-agent check in nginx.conf.
Re: I rebuilt my blog's cache. Bots are the audience now
#9Why do I get just an empty page?
Same here via VPN. No VPN, and I get the actual content.
Re: I rebuilt my blog's cache. Bots are the audience now
#10Personally, I think this is a good idea. But the core problem is this: How is a newcomer supposed to build reputation now? Without exaggerated business promises or capital, basic online reputation usually depends on writing. In fact, my own first step into freelancing came because someone found the articles on my Korean blog interesting. So the question is: if the subscribers are bots, what benefit do they actually g…
What's worse, is they train on your content, and very often you don't even get an attribution link. So the end user never even knows it was your site that provided the information and you never even get a single clickthrough. It's not like the SERPs where someone would click through, read your site, hopefully find it interesting and useful and come back. It's going to be a serious problem and I've already seen sites…
I pulled all the websites I had - some existed for a decade plus and made me hundreds of thousands of dollars. All that is left is bots that theft the value of my work. Until something changes, goodbye.