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I’ve noticed that the issues above are becoming increasingly notorious across the entirety of the Fediverse. What’s being done to mititage those issues?
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I’ve noticed that the issues above are becoming increasingly notorious across the entirety of the Fediverse. What’s being done to mititage those issues?
I guess. But that was an assumption on you guys’ part as well. Not that there’s anything wrong with that.
I’m curious about the “in general” part, though. Maybe that’s a part of the philosophy I don’t quite understand yet, but how’s the kind of scraping that I mentioned any good? Or is that not the right question to ask?
I didn’t say anything about the “prevent instances from being overloaded” part being good or bad. I didn’t even give an opinion on ActivityPub, just pointed out the practical limitations and incompatible design goals.
Personally, I’ve got no problem with websites implementing rate caps and whatnot to ensure that their traffic remains within the limits they can handle, or throttling specific IPs. I am very concerned with how Cloudflare in particular has become the single centralized “gatekeeper” for vast swaths of the Internet, though. If they decide that some particular client isn’t allowed to see stuff then poof, a big chunk of the Internet is cut off. That’s worrisome IMO.