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Mastodon suffers outages from abusive AI scraping

The social media platform Mastodon experienced temporary outages due to an influx of abusive AI scraping. The site has since been restored, but users are asked to be patient as the platform addresses the ongoing issue. AI

IMPACT AI scraping continues to pose challenges for online platforms, requiring ongoing mitigation efforts.

RANK_REASON The item describes a technical issue on a social media platform caused by AI activity, not a core AI development.

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  1. Mastodon — fosstodon.org TIER_1 English(EN) · [email protected] ·

    One of websites I frequent had 504 and 502 errors today. Now they are back up, with the message "Please be patient if you are experiencing problems. We are deal

    One of websites I frequent had 504 and 502 errors today. Now they are back up, with the message "Please be patient if you are experiencing problems. We are dealing with extraordinarily abusive AI scraping." # AI