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forestj

I have my own reasons to be critical of Drew and talking w/ him about issues we had while trying to self host sr.ht services only reinforced those, however:

Its weird and unnerving to me that mine is the first top-level comment which is not explicitly condemning this post.

hoistbypetard

I thought the real gem in this post was hidden in the footnote. (I do use the service, so of course I’m interested in the upcoming ToS changes, but those would not be on-topic by themselves.)

The footnote mentioned and linked to go-away. The variable and configurable gates there seem more appealing to me than Anubis. Though I hope no incident bumps it up my priority list to try either one out.

The README also neatly summarized my thinking on the specific issue of AI bots hammering archives and blame pages on software forges:

If AI is so smart, why not just git clone the repositories?

mariusor

Very strong beliefs very tightly held here by DeVault, shooting from the hip without any filter, and everyone catching strays: Cloudflare is a racketeer, rationalists are in a cult, etc. They might be that, I have no idea, but I’d focus on hating one thing at a time.

I fully support Sourcehut’s fight for a web without assholes, but man, he’s making it so easy for people to dislike him as a person.