The State of Slopfarms About "Linux" in August 2026
Less than a year ago we quit doing "Slopwatch". We said that by the end of 2026 it seemed likely many slopfarms would already be dead, de-indexed, de-ranked etc. So far this prediction has been somewhat good, not perfect. I want to explain why.
At the moment I keep observing about 6 sites (an everyday exhaustive check) I know to be slopfarms or mostly LLM slop. Some of them are inactive, none went offline, and in some cases activity waned considerably. I decided to no longer name those sites (they have "linux" in their domain name) as naming them may lead to people visiting them. Starving slopfarms is very important; they throw in the towel faster if nobody visits them.
There are several ways by which slopfarms can be 'killed': 1) search engines like Google cull them (e.g. de-list them); 2) the supplier of slop (images and text) goes offline or adds some paywall/fees because there is no viable business model; 3) the operator loses interest; 4) the sponsors cuts off funding, so it means the slopfarm becomes stale and/or goes offline (points 1-3 can be contributing factors).
Let's see how many slopfarms (we focus on ones that claim to 'cover' Linux but engage in a form of plagiarism) can survive 'til Christmastime.
What seems abundantly clear is that social control media is drowned/overwhelmed by slop (a subject of criticism and growing concern) and it drives away real participation. As a result, some social control media networks call it quits. Those issues (this and the slopfarms) are intertwined). You cannot sell ads to bots!
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