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Perversely, this submission is essentially blogspam. The article linked in the second paragraph, to which this "1 minute" read adds almost nothing of value, is

by cxr 2y ago

Perversely, this submission is essentially blogspam. The article linked in the second paragraph, to which this "1 minute" read adds almost nothing of value, is the main story: <https://thelibre.news/foss-infrastructure-is-under-attack-by-ai-companies/ https://thelibre.news/foss-infrastructure-is-under-attack-by...> 394 comments. 645 points. Submitted 3 hours ago: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43422413 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43422413>

btown 2y ago
But also ironically, it's almost heartwarming these days to see blogspam that's not machine-generated! A real live human cared enough about an article to write a brief (perhaps only barely substantial, but at least handwritten) take on it! It's reminiscent, perhaps, of the feel and motivation for Tumblr reblogs - and Tumblr continues to be vibrant by virtue of this culture: https://www.tumblr.com/engineering/189455858864/how-reblogs-work https://www.tumblr.com/engineering/189455858864/how-reblogs-... (2019) Now, is driving attention and reputation to their site (in the broadest senses) part of a blogspammer/reblogger's motivation? Absolutely! But should we be concerned about rewarding their act of curation, as long as there is at least some level of genuine curation intent? A world where that answer is categorically "no" would be antithetical, I think, to the concept of the participatory web.
- dkkergoog 2y ago
  "heartwarming ... To see blogspam" the internet was a mistake
  - wongarsu 2y ago
    The internet was great, everything we did with it in the last 20 years with it was the mistake. Collimating in a comment that blogspam can now be one of the positive notes in the hellscape we are building. A very useful hellscape though, for all its flaws
    - 38 2y ago
      culminating
      - wongarsu 2y ago
        Thanks, that's the right word. Now at least you know the comment wasn't written by AI
        ryandrake 2y ago
        It won't be long until AI makes spelling, grammar and usage errors, if it's trained on things like message boards where people still don't know the difference between were, we're and where, lose vs. loose, affect vs. effect and wary vs. weary.
    - seec 2y ago
      The internet IS great. The problem is similar to everything else in the world: the ratio of idiots to smart people using it is widely in favor of the idiots and they get to influence where it goes, how it operates and many other things. In other words, democracy sucks but we have not found something so much better that it would pay for the benefit of freedom for everyone...
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MisterTea 2y ago
I dont feel this is blog spam it's more of a quick comment of the situation pointing to the actual article. I dont see anything wrong with writing a short post boosting or commenting on another article. There are no ads so I dont see this as blogspam which I associate with financial gain or clout.
SethMLarson 2y ago
Hehe, just participating in POSSE :) Funnily enough the story you're linking to quotes me with pictures of a story I wrote (https://sethmlarson.dev/slop-security-reports https://sethmlarson.dev/slop-security-reports) about LLM-generated reports to open source projects.
tempfile 2y ago
It also linked to https://drewdevault.com/2025/03/17/2025-03-17-Stop-externalizing-your-costs-on-me.html https://drewdevault.com/2025/03/17/2025-03-17-Stop-externali..., which is another worthwhile read.
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Cheer2171 2y ago
All the time I see links on HN front page to Twitter and Mastodon posts with just as little text to them. Why does it upset you when it is in the medium of blogs, but not micro blogs?
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by cxr 2y ago

btown 2y ago

But also ironically, it's almost heartwarming these days to see blogspam that's not machine-generated! A real live human cared enough about an article to write a brief (perhaps only barely substantial, but at least handwritten) take on it! It's reminiscent, perhaps, of the feel and motivation for Tumblr reblogs - and Tumblr continues to be vibrant by virtue of this culture: https://www.tumblr.com/engineering/189455858864/how-reblogs-work https://www.tumblr.com/engineering/189455858864/how-reblogs-... (2019) Now, is driving attention and reputation to their site (in the broadest senses) part of a blogspammer/reblogger's motivation? Absolutely! But should we be concerned about rewarding their act of curation, as long as there is at least some level of genuine curation intent? A world where that answer is categorically "no" would be antithetical, I think, to the concept of the participatory web.

dkkergoog 2y ago
"heartwarming ... To see blogspam" the internet was a mistake
- wongarsu 2y ago
  The internet was great, everything we did with it in the last 20 years with it was the mistake. Collimating in a comment that blogspam can now be one of the positive notes in the hellscape we are building. A very useful hellscape though, for all its flaws
  - 38 2y ago
    culminating
    - wongarsu 2y ago
      Thanks, that's the right word. Now at least you know the comment wasn't written by AI
      - ryandrake 2y ago
        It won't be long until AI makes spelling, grammar and usage errors, if it's trained on things like message boards where people still don't know the difference between were, we're and where, lose vs. loose, affect vs. effect and wary vs. weary.
  - seec 2y ago
    The internet IS great. The problem is similar to everything else in the world: the ratio of idiots to smart people using it is widely in favor of the idiots and they get to influence where it goes, how it operates and many other things. In other words, democracy sucks but we have not found something so much better that it would pay for the benefit of freedom for everyone...
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MisterTea 2y ago

I dont feel this is blog spam it's more of a quick comment of the situation pointing to the actual article. I dont see anything wrong with writing a short post boosting or commenting on another article. There are no ads so I dont see this as blogspam which I associate with financial gain or clout.

SethMLarson 2y ago

Hehe, just participating in POSSE :) Funnily enough the story you're linking to quotes me with pictures of a story I wrote (https://sethmlarson.dev/slop-security-reports https://sethmlarson.dev/slop-security-reports) about LLM-generated reports to open source projects.

tempfile 2y ago

It also linked to https://drewdevault.com/2025/03/17/2025-03-17-Stop-externalizing-your-costs-on-me.html https://drewdevault.com/2025/03/17/2025-03-17-Stop-externali..., which is another worthwhile read.

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Cheer2171 2y ago

All the time I see links on HN front page to Twitter and Mastodon posts with just as little text to them. Why does it upset you when it is in the medium of blogs, but not micro blogs?

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