The only way to get the internet back is by regulating AI. But regulations are country-side. Some countries don’t even recognize copyright, they won’t play by AI rules.

Which means: the open internet is dead. Get used to it. It was a good run, but it ended.

It’s been years since I last hosted a project on GitHub. They are all hosted locally. Every public document there is, the AI companies are going to DDoS and make profit of. Now will be the era of selfhosting for people with enough time and determinism to do so, and being scrapped by AI for everyone else.

Just like privacy concerned people and “I have nothing to hide” mindset. And ad-viewers +ad blockers before that.

Time and again, enshittification hits. And every time, you have to put in way more effort to fight it.

The only way I can see out of this is by removing anonymity from (some websites of) the internet. Each person/company gets a government-backed ID. And if you don’t provide an ID, or if I block you or your government, you don’t get in. Which also enshittifies the internet.

The AI enshittification is the worst kind though, since they target the content creator instead of the consumer. Usually if your website steals my data, I just never went to your website. But as a content-creator, you have to let everyone in at first, and then later blacklist, which is labor-intensive and easily avoidable. Protection rackets like cloud flare is not a solution, since you’re still giving all the power to a third party that will eventually make a deal with the other billionaires.