Online communities will need to evolve natural protective features and either become porcupines that are visible but not worth the trouble of botting, or small hidden communities that spread via offline or secondary means, rather than attracting traffic from the web at large. I’m not sure what those communities will look like and it will probably be a pretty rapidly evolving landscape for at least the rest of my natural life.

OR we’ll get our act together and pass some laws or treaties or other broad compacts that make the public internet a usable shared resource. It could happen, but I admit I don’t see the internet’s current trajectory intersecting that possibility for the foreseeable future.