[zihotki]

I think that most of niche platforms would become walled behind a login sooner or later due to increased costs associated with AI crawlers downloading every single bit they could reach.

[selfhoster11]

Or they could work on switching to CDNs or P2P for file delivery instead.

[whywhywhywhy]

Honestly no good reason a mod site couldn't be pure torrent based, could have even built it into their own mod manager they had.

[altairprime]

They’ll still end up being the seeder 99.999% of the time, and their audience is typically quite hostile towards them for trying to charge the bandwidth costs to their audience in any manner whatsoever, whether it’s subscription fees or upload bandwidth.