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Not the first time that's happened: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/9

At a basic level it just means anyone can run their own instance if they want. Most importantly here, it means if the company/organization running the flagship instance goes rotten it is much easier to migrate out of it.

The point (as I see it) is not so much to stop scraping as it is to prevent bots from effectively DDOS-ing web services. As others have said ActivityPub content is public and there are ways to get it without slamming instances with scraper bots.

The API, including both user and federation, cannot.

This is theoretically an issue however in practice Anubis only weighs requests that appear to come from a browser: https://anubis.techaro.lol/docs/design/how-anubis-works

I just tested my instance with Jerboa and it seems to work just fine.

Not a fan for a few reasons. Flathub (as far as I know) works on the app store model where developers offer their own builds to users, which is probably appealing to people coming from the Windows world who view distros as unnecessary middlemen, but in the GNU/Linux world the distro serves an important role as a sort of union of users; they make sure the software works in the distro environment, resolve breakages, and remove any anti-features placed in there by the upstream developers.

The sandboxing is annoying too, but understandable.

Despite this I will resort to a flatpak if I'm too lazy to figure out how to package something myself.

I keep my server config in a public git repo, but I don't think you have to do anything really special to make it work with lemmy. Since I use Traefik I followed the guide for setting up Anubis with Traefik.

I don't expect to run into issues as Anubis specifically looks for user-agent strings that appear like human users (i.e. they contain the word "Mozilla" as most graphical web browsers do) any request clearly coming from a bot that identifies itself is left alone, and lemmy identifies itself as "Lemmy/{version} +{hostname}" in requests.

hentai character

anime != hentai

I smile whenever I encounter the Anubis character in the wild. She's holding up the free software internet on her shoulders after all.

Yes.

Source: I use it on my instance and federation works fine

But but but I thought Apple was the good guys, all the degooglers said so

This came up during the GPLv3 drafting period. Bradley Kuhn (whose surname is a homonym of this word) relayed personal experience. One commenter said they experienced being called this slur. It's unfortunately still a problem.

FSF moved out of its office in August 2024. Note that they removed the address in the newer revision. I guess they took the opportunity to change the example copyright disclaimer to something that didn't include a racial slur.

It's not a functional change so I don't think it warrants a new version number or URL.

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