I think whatever you're doing is a little overkill for Lemmy. Normal users don't have these issues.
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ciferecaNinjo@fedia.io 9 months ago
Shame this is posted on a centralized Cloudflare instance, which causes problems for people using Tor:
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Chozo@kbin.social 9 months ago
ciferecaNinjo@fedia.io 9 months ago
Normal users don't have these issues.
That’s not true. Cloudflare impacts both normal users and street-wise users. In particular:
- users whose ISP uses CGNAT to distribute a limited range of IPv4 addresses (this generally impacts poor people in impoverished regions)
- the Tor community
- VPN users
- users of public libraries, and generally networks where IP addresses are shared
- privacy enthusiasts who will not disclose ~25% of their web traffic to one single corporation in a country without privacy safeguards
- blind people who disable images in their browsers (which triggers false positives for robots, as scripts are generally not interested in images either)
- the permacomputing community and people on limited internet connections, who also disable browser images to reduce bandwidth which makes them appear as bots
- people who actually run bots – Cloudflare is outspokenly anti-robot and treats beneficial bots the same as malicious bots
BaroqueInMind@kbin.social 9 months ago
Good thing that they can just simply use another fucking instance thanks to federated systems.
ciferecaNinjo@fedia.io 9 months ago
Not exactly. !showerthoughts was a poor choice, as is:
- !showerthoughts ← Cloudflare
- !showerthoughts ← Cloudflare
- !showerthoughts ← Cloudflare
- !showerthoughts ← Cloudflare
- !showerthoughts ← not CF, but copious political baggage & centralized by disproportionate size
They’re all shit & the OP’s own account is limited to creating a new community on lemmy.world. !showerthoughts would be the lesser of evils but the best move would be create an acct on a digital rights-respecting instance that allows community creations and then create showerthoughts community there.
breakingcups@lemmy.world 9 months ago
It’s the beauty of the fediverse
ciferecaNinjo@fedia.io 9 months ago
It’s an abuse of the fediverse and antithetical to decentralization.
BaroqueInMind@kbin.social 9 months ago
Are we purchase shaming people here now for buying a cheap fucking domain on Cloudflare? This is so stupid that you are this petty, it amazes me.
snowe@programming.dev 9 months ago
Also cf is about the only way to make federation affordable and safe. If we didn’t use cf on programming.dev, the server charges per month would bankrupt me. I’m not getting nearly enough donations to cover the bandwidth costs for every single call, cf covers like 70% of the bandwidth for free just due to caching. And cf also allows you to block and report child porn, thus taking another burden off server administrators.
People that think you shouldn’t use cf just do not understand what it takes to run an instance.
ciferecaNinjo@fedia.io 9 months ago
That’s been tried. When someone reported CP to Cloudflare, CF demanded the identity of the whiste blower then doxxed their identity to the offending customer, who then published the whistle blower’s identity so their users could retaliate. When the CEO (Matthew Prince) was confronted about this, his reply was that the whistle blowers should have used fake names. Then this company you support had the nerve to claim to have a privacy pledge: “[A]ny personal information you provide to us is just that: personal and private.”
snowe@programming.dev 9 months ago
… nobody reports cp to cf. cf has a literal csam scanner that pretty much ever fediverse site is using. I own programming.dev. It’s in use there. You clearly have no clue what you’re talking about. Have a nice day, I’m really not in the mood to talk with you anymore.
ciferecaNinjo@fedia.io 9 months ago
“Petty” for not supporting the elitism and exclusivity that you support? Cloudflare blocks impoverished communities whose ISPs cannot afford an IPv4 for everyone. Shame on them and shame on you for supporting it.