They’re not aiming for 100% total purity and compliance. See the “A matter of interpretation” and “Enforcement” sections.

I really like this idea and think it’s awesome!

When your instance upgrades you’ll be able to follow Mastodon accounts in Piefed and see their posts in your home feed.

Definitely not.

It varies depending on the instance but generally bots get banned.

PieFed includes RSS posting functionality out of the box, btw.

I’m not pretending there isn’t a class war. That would be silly of me.

When people start acting like the class war is happening right here between their fellow fedi citizens, that’s when it becomes a bit unhinged.

Take it easy. artyom might just be mistaken you don’t need to turn it into a class war.

The next billion dollar company will be a wrapper around Claude that strips out the em dashes.

I got an email from a client last week asking me to install an AI-generated list of containers onto a server. The key container, the database at the center of the whole system, has commits from Claude in it’s git repository. Great start guys.

They outsouced the software architect job to a chatbot and then had a veteran of the industry who has been around since the internet equivalent of the big bang install a handful of docker containers. Reverse centaur to the max.

It’s going to hurt in 12 months time if they realise the reason why everything sucks is because they built on sand. But they probably won’t even realise why the project failed because their chatbot won’t be able to tell them why.

I did not, it seemed complicated and rabbit-hole-y.

In the end I just added an Anubis-like feature into PieFed. It works great.

It really makes a big difference.

I’ve greatly reduced my Mastodon usage because of the daily “oh shit this link goes to AI slop again, sigh, close tab” experience. It’s such a drag.

I used fail2ban as an anti-scraper strategy for a few months. It helped with the really basic scrapers that only use one or a few IP addresses.

But then they adapted and started using hundreds or thousands of different IP addresses, each one only making a couple of requests. fail2ban became counter-productive as it slowed my server down - the log files it was monitoring became massive under high load and it needs to scan the log files often to check if an IP has been seen before.

I’m not saying don’t try it, I’m saying it’s only effective in some situations.

Also you are using piefed.social which aggressively filters out AI content, the topic of the article.

It’s always dns at least half the time

haha looks like you’re aaalmost at the point where water cooling is compulsory.

Is it a Threadripper? I built a couple of those for architectural rendering, such absolute beasts.

Nice chonky heatsink, goddam

check this out!

Completely useless…

Yes

https://redirect.piefed.social/ takes you to your nearest PieFed instance.