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by Bratmon 18 days ago
I actually read a really interesting article from a relatively small blog explaining that they're receiving a massive amount of scraper traffic from residential proxies.

The article was called "The one we're commenting on"

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> The LWN content-management system contains over 750,000 items (articles, comments, security alerts, etc) dating back to the adoption of the "new" site code in 2002. We still have, in our archives, everything we did in the over four years we operated prior to the change as well. In addition, the mailing-list archives contain many hundreds of thousands of emails.

Does that sound like your typical self-hosted blog?

> Does that sound like your typical self-hosted blog?

When compared to

> They're most useful for getting information from the cloud hosted sites that hoarde most of humanity's output today like Youtube and Reddit.

yes, absolutely.