The Internet is becoming centralized is because it’s gotten ridiculously difficult and expensive to run a website without using things like Cloudflare and AWS, because everything has become designed to need it combined with the constant onslaught of AI bot traffic. So I’m starting to wonder if the bot onslaught isn’t AI but is just a scorched-earth thing coming from the companies which want centralized control to begin with, like an information-based protection racket. https://youtu.be/aLPrNSFLb2U