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1. nixCraft 🐧 (nixcraft@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 05-May-2024 06:34:32 JST nixCraft 🐧

   Humans now share the web equally with bots, report warns amid fears of the ‘dead internet’ https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/dead-internet-web-bots-humans-b2530324.html Dead internet theory is real :P

   • theM0ntarCann0n (montar@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 05-May-2024 06:39:05 JST theM0ntarCann0n

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     @nixCraft guess we'll need to make index of human-only places.

   • Roadskater, Ph.D. (roadskater@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 05-May-2024 06:46:29 JST Roadskater, Ph.D.

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     @nixCraft "Nearly half, 49.6 per cent, of all internet traffic came from bots last year." Based on what I see in my office website's logs, that seems... low.

   • Joseph Dickson (josephdickson@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 05-May-2024 09:24:17 JST Joseph Dickson

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     @nixCraft but, do bots enjoy the Internet?

   • expiredtoken (expiredtoken@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 05-May-2024 15:49:02 JST expiredtoken

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     @nixCraft In other news, email is over 80% of spam which is non-human traffic. In the remaining 20%, there is a significant amount of legitimate automatic notifications. But email is still useful !