Farside was created before the explosion of AI-driven scraping and bot traffic. As a result, querying instance status is no longer reliable due to bot-detection and challenge systems (which I understand and am in favor of, btw). Since the project is no longer practical to operate and maintain, it is being archived.
Companies (especially AI companies) had to ruin this for everyone. Urgh.
Given that almost every one of the services there was created to minimize the effects of enshittification on the relevant platforms or sites in the first place, it’s par for the course
Companies (especially AI companies) had to ruin this for everyone. Urgh.
Given that almost every one of the services there was created to minimize the effects of enshittification on the relevant platforms or sites in the first place, it’s par for the course