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Static-Site Social Networks: Building AI-Spam-Resistant Communities
Static-site social networks like the s@ protocol sidestep AI spam by design—no central server means no algorithmic amplification, and mutual-follow requirements mean bots can't reach audiences they haven't earned. The indie web is turning technical constraints into structural defenses.
Facebook Is Cooked: Inside Social Media's Quality Collapse
Facebook's feeds have been overrun by AI-generated spam, collapsed organic reach, and algorithmically-engineered junk — while Meta's revenue hits record highs. Here's the documented evidence of how the world's largest social network became a content wasteland.
Facebook Is Cooked: Inside Social Media's Quality Collapse
Facebook's feeds have been overrun by AI-generated spam, collapsed organic reach, and algorithmically-engineered junk — while Meta's revenue hits record highs. Here's the documented evidence of how the world's largest social network became a content wasteland.
Wikipedia vs Archive.today: The Web Preservation War
Wikipedia permanently blacklisted archive.today in February 2026 after the site's operator embedded DDoS-launching JavaScript into its CAPTCHA pages and tampered with archived content—triggering the removal of nearly 700,000 citation links from one of the web's most important reference resources.