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celeste_hearts_lesbianceleste_hearts_transceleste_hearts_demisexual flori_ava_star:~cursor_blinking @star@amazonawaws.com
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i cannot for the life of me fathom nor possibly understand why pronouns.page has 1737 partners, including ones for "select" and "personalised advertising", which they feel like sharing data with (except for polycule jokes). That is absolutely ridiculous. I will be looking into self-hosting an instance of this soon.
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Lyn coweat verifiedlesbian @fugi@amazonawaws.com
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@star what the fuck x.x

There's also pronouns.cc which is open source and non privacy invasive from what I can tell
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celeste_hearts_lesbianceleste_hearts_transceleste_hearts_demisexual flori_ava_star:~cursor_blinking @star@amazonawaws.com
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@fugi Yeah. FWIW, pronouns.page is also open source, and me personally, I prefer the features of pronouns.page over pronouns.cc. Since pronouns.cc is generally non privacy invasive like this, I don't feel the need to self-host that one, I really am just looking for a time sink, I guess x). I think self-hosting this is a major undertaking, because of all the abuse+scraping prevention one would need etc., but I really would like to challenge myself :3
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Lyn coweat verifiedlesbian @fugi@amazonawaws.com
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@star I mean against scraping, it probably would be best to just have non-guessable and non-indexed profile urls. Can't really do much against it otherwise anyway.
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@fugi I more mean protections against fully automated scraping, such $alternative_to_anubis and iocaine, both of which very effective at keeping a good amount of traffic away before it ever reaches the servers and generates too much load there.
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Lyn coweat verifiedlesbian @fugi@amazonawaws.com
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@star Well fully automated scraping would only come from profile URLs discovered elsewhere or potentially guessing. I think just IP banning after too many 404s or actual hits would be better suited than anubis, or not worth its downsides at least. (I don't know enough about iocaine to judge.)

I view such tools as better suited for things like forgejo, where there may be lots of expensive server side operations from link walking and also commonly an explore page and repo lists on user profiles.
Neither should be the case for something like pronouns.page (at least, if implemented as I'd find it sensible).
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celeste_hearts_lesbianceleste_hearts_transceleste_hearts_demisexual flori_ava_star:~cursor_blinking @star@amazonawaws.com
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@fugi To be clear, I did say alternatives to Anubis precisely because I know that there are things achieving something similar with less of Anubis's downsides. On top of that, I also just don't like Anubis as a project
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Lyn coweat verifiedlesbian @fugi@amazonawaws.com
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@star Ah, fair enough. I though alternatives as in doing the same thing. (I don't like Anubis as a project either)
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@fugi Everyone 🤝 Disliking Anubis
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