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@t54r4n1 it really hasn't? there's been recent developments in scrapers using client api's on other servers, making them impossible to block without blockimg that entire server. Also Mastodon 4.x exposes a lot of the client api usable for scraping by default now, even with authorized fetch

@vaguelyweird I'm really happy with my self-hosted code-server for that, but that's also not trivial in setup and maintenance..

@doot@glitterkitten.co.uk @tobi right, as it's a separate service there might be *some* possibilities still, but we'll burn that bridge when we get there

@doot@glitterkitten.co.uk @tobi im intermittently working on a new Mastodon frontend that could prevent some of this, allowing 4.x to disable unauthenticated api while still having working static pages for profiles/threads. Needs more work though, and in your case would also need integration with managed hosting

seems to struggle a lot getting the overview for gargron, so maybe that's a way to overload it :")

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it doesn't seem able to list any toots from me, but did autocomplete my username with avatar, so they have a scraped user database for sure.
also no known way to even opt-out, not that that'd be enough. shit like this needs actual consent through opt-in

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I wish them all the best whatever they are doing now, and wish for all of us still here to do the best that we can to make this a sincerely liberated social space and not just a bunch of nerdy flag waving hashtags-in-bio losers 2/2

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Using this #FollowFriday to remember the friends we've lost from this space.
Deni, Swampy, Haf, Dumi, Ikora, everyone that stayed gone after PV closed or had to make themselves tiny and quiet elsewhere in this network; the ghosts of others I regularly stumble across in replies to old toots, and the people that are just about hanging on despite the shit they regularly face here. 1/2

@joepie91 yeah, the api should convey it's a truncated response, and the frontend show a 'load more' or whatever

@joepie91 not logged in it's much shorter, iirc non-authenticated /context is limited to 50 toots

@joepie91 ohh I just realized i'm still logged in on a m.s test account, so the api can fetch more context in the thread, that's probably related

@joepie91 huh? if I open the first link I can see a gigantic thread, and scroll down all the way to the bottom?

cloudflare can eat a big old bag of dicks, and that's my professional opinion on the matter

if you work for cloudflare, quit

if you give money to cloudflare, stop

fuck those assholes

@suricrasia I also feel like training prioritized long-form answers (like essay word counts lol) over quality, because it more "impressive"?

re: uni, sleep, ph 

also just feeling kinda sickish overall, with something that's definitely not covid but still meh...

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