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@vy hey we've only just started, odds are we'll encounter something way worse before 2024

> it's an implicit opt-in

aaaaaa the mental gymnastics

this will, of course, keep happening as long as Website Boy keeps adding APIs literally designed to show off instance metadata to scrapers, and shipping config defaults equivalent to "scrape me Mommy 🥺🥺🥺"

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NGINX user agent blocking, long code 

@vyr if you're matching multiple user-agents it's easier (and I think more efficient?) to use a `map` instead

in the `http` block (not `server`) add
```
map $http_user_agent $blocked_user_agent {
default 0;
"FediList agent (fedilist.com/)" 1;
"~Python/.+ aiohttp/" 1;
"~Python/.+ websockets/" 1;
}
```
etc, where '1' means it's a blocked agent (with regex support)

then add a single `if` block to your `server` blocks:
```
if ($blocked_user_agent) {
return 444;
}
```

@djsundog just a heads-up, afaik a domain block does nothing, because they're unauthenticated/unsigned requests to the public api... you really need their robots.txt (or ip blocks) sigh

@aurynn if only the techbros could be normal for once we wouldn't need all this

i wonder what part of (online) debate has made it so hard to be critical of things you support

i guess it's polarization, and foregoing of nuance?

@thufie @maloki maybe the app gets killed in the background and on restart it just picks the default again?

meds, caffeine, bad 

me starting adhd meds: oh no i had 5mg of methylphenidate and slowly drank less than half a cup of coffee because i wanted to quite slowly and now im hella overstimulated

me now: takes 10mg with a swig of energy drink

can't wait till someone writes a nice color theme for GoToSocial, and then have it seamlessly work for FediFox and FediFox Shield too

@zaya@hellsite.site @goat@hellsite.site sandstorm

@futzle @aurynn like if you open this thread on cloudisland.nz both our replies show up

@futzle @aurynn huh that's odd, never noticed that happening with my instance. We've had authorized fetch enabled for at least a year now, and it hasn't caused any issues.

This whole fediverse trend of responding to ideas about improving with moderation with "well just make a personal block list, there you go"

really need to die.

Personal filters and block lists are not "moderation" they aren't an affirmation of shared community values, they can't replace moderation to effectively stem the flow of hate content.

They don't meet the need.

If you don't have this need that is fine. There are places you can go. But lots of people do. jeeeeez

One thing I will say about that chart going around that shows monkeypox in rapid decline:

I can't help but notice that all the media outlets that bought into the gay disease panic narrative are reeeeeeeeeeal quiet about how effectively queer community mobilized to shut that danger down.

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