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The end of tt-rss.org (community.tt-rss.org)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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[–] -5 points 1 year ago (8 children)

The post is abit low on details, but I strongly suspect this is a victim of AI scraping.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (5 children)

    It really doesn't seem like that's the case. It doesn't even makes much sense. What do tou think was being AI scrapped? The source code?

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  • [–] -1 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    It makes a lot of sense. Both the git repos that they hosted and things like a RSS feed-reader are things that are the prime target for AI scrapers and the same time quite database query heavy on the backend so that the scraping really has a big impact on the costs of running these services.

    And yes source-code is among what is the most targeted data to ingest by AI scrapers, mainly to train coding assistants but apparently it also helps LLMs to understand logic better.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (3 children)

    First, source code is on github.

    Second, RSS aggregators are self hostable, not a service provided by the dev. The dev would have not issues of a public instance of ttrss hosted by someone gets scrapped.

    Third, RSS aggregators doesn't really tend to be public facing. Due to their personal nature they don't tend to be open. They are more account based.

    Sorry, I really don't see the case here.

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  • [–] -1 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

    What? They explicitly talk about shutting down their self-hosted infrastructure which includes two git services and other targets of AI scraping. Did you even read the post?

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 child)

    They are closing the whole project.

    Specifically they say that they are tired of pushing fixes and that they don't find excitement in maintaining the project. With zero mentions at all to being scrapped or having any kind of AI related issue.

    I don't know if you knew the project before seeing this post. I did, I was considering between this and freshrss and chose freshrss specifically because I knew that the end of ttrss was close (this was like 2 years ago). There were a lot of signs that the development was ending and the project was on route to be abandoned.

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  • [–] -1 points 1 year ago*

    No, they are shutting down their publicly hosted infrastructure and say that their project is "finished" anyways, so it doesn't matter that much as a justification. But the main point about the post is the public facing infrastructure and how they lost motivation to run it.

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