It's wild. Data is very valuable. This manifests in two fronts simultaneously: who has the data controls heavily on who sees it and under what circumstances, and on the other side, they scrape it as hard as they can.

Counterpoint: I think he should stay and fight the good fight.

Indie blog businesses are great for the health of the human internet, and I don't think surrendering preemptively will help things get better.

No way. People deserve expression and to have a place that's THEIRS where they can foster a community. Much is learned. Playing battle bots is fun at the sysadmin level (for me), maybe not so much for others, but to have a place where people express themselves, and have THEIR place outside of the walled gardens such as social media, AND they protect it from the bots?

That's the battle, and expression, people, their interests, and their communities are worth fighting for. _ESPECIALLY_ in this day and age where botnets/scrapers are using things such as Infatica to mask themselves as residential IP addresses, and mimicking human behaviors to better avoid bot detection.

There's a war on authenticity, people's authentic works, and the reverse: determining if a user is authentic now adays.

His persistent efforts are the reason I pay for Bear Blog. I think he should fight for the chance to come out on the other side of whatever future we’re heading towards.