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@feedle@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 22 hours ago

🔁 From our "Digital Crossroads" collection:

Webspace Invaders - https://matthiasott.com/articles/webspace-invaders?ref=feedle.world

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Matthias Ott – User Experience Designer

Webspace Invaders · Matthias Ott

There’s something happening on the Web at the moment that almost feels like watching that old arcade game Space Invaders play out across our servers. Bots and scrapers marching in formation, attacking our servers wave after wave, systematically requesting page after page, relentlessly filling their data stores while we watch our access logs fill up.
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@jd@todon.eu replied  ·  activity timestamp 22 hours ago

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Article: '...Because here’s the thing: Cloudflare already sees an enormous percentage of web traffic. They’re a neutral actor now. But power structures change. Companies change. Countries and their governments change. Obviously. Every time we centralize infrastructure in response to a threat, we make the web a little less distributed, a little less resilient, and a little less ours. And we all saw last year what happens when half of the web relies on just one single point of failure. Within just one month, Cloudflare experienced two major outages: a global outage on November 18, 2025 took down roughly one in five webpages globally at the height of the incident, and one-third of the world’s 10,000 most popular websites, apps, and services, according to some estimates....'

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