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• woelkchen@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I don’t think the ideas of Lambalicious work with Lemmy. What would sending the domain name only achieve? I assume it uses the same logic as Lemmy uses to find crossposts? Obviously it needs the whole address then.

  Maybe instead of crawling automatically, the users need to click a button to look up discussions? (I have yet to install your extension, so I have yet to experience the workflow myself, sorry.)

  Maybe link to the privacy terms of the default instances? In general, I think your approach is good. You don’t collect any data, the feature is 100% opt-in. A central relay/proxy is even worse than your current approach. People are obviously free to set up their own Lemmy/Mastodon server if they want a relay.

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  • NikkiDimes@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    What would sending the domain name only achieve?

    I’m guessing the idea could be to fetch a batch of recent discussions based on pages within a domain, then filter the results locally. This could even work very well with local caching.

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  • lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    A central relay/proxy is even worse than your current approach. People are obviously free to set up their own Lemmy/Mastodon server if they want a relay.

    Lemmy/Mastodon are quite heavy to set up if all you want is to proxy outbound connections. Just using any available proxy you have (which could very well be eg.: a SOCKS proxy set up on FoxyProxxy) is quite nimble and takes up at most a few kbs of RAM.

    That said, for anonymizing the IP origin this only mostly works if enough people use the same general relays (basically the same principle as TOR, VPNs), which means this only becomes effective once enough people use this plugin that it becomes worthwhile to position such infrastructure.

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