Watch people unironically celebrate FOSS developers running into financial issues from bot traffic, because they don’t like Gnome shell.
Wait a second. Is this just Lunduke gaslighting people again, like the last time all the idiots were saying that Gnome was going to go bankrupt within a year?
What happened to gnome?
Their hubris may have finally caught up with them.
“No, fuck you. You’ll use your computer how we tell you to, and you’ll like it!” just isn’t very compatible with “Please give us more money!”
The GNOME Foundation has been going downhill for a while, they keep having to cut spending, and cut, and cut. The latest is:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-GitHub-GitLab-Redirect
(Forgive the Phoronix link.)
I imagine AI scrapers have a lot to do with the massively increased hosting costs. I’m assuming Anubis et al didnt fix all their bot traffic issues
the massively increased hosting costs.
Eh? What increased hosting costs?
Bots aggressively scrapping everything they can.


