Mauve 👁💜 @mauve@mastodon.mauve.moe

Running a Mastodon server is becoming increasingly problematic due to GenAI.

There’s multiple different things happening, including but not limited to:

- very aggressive scraping of user content and block evasion, with the resource costs that come with it

- AI agents aggressively trying to register accounts and evade restrictions

- rising cost of RAM - Mastodon is memory hungry, RAM is really expensive now

It’s odd to experience first hand, it’s like being consumed by.. a void.