- cross-posted to:
- technews@radiation.party
- cross-posted to:
- technews@radiation.party
Julia Evans (@bork@jvns.ca) writes about her experience of running and using a single-person Mastodon server. The post also links to other people’s experiences in-between.
FediBuzz relays have been absolutely indispensable on my own single-user Mastodon server. Without them, following hashtags would be futile, as id only see hashtags from accounts I already follow.
Unfortunately, Mastodon is killing FediBuzz in its next 4.2 update.
My only other option is to relay with entire other servers, which will add tons of unwanted storage on my server – including shady stuff from the gross corners of those servers that I probably don’t want stored locally.
It almost feels like they’re trying to push me to use a big server.
Any idea why they’re doing this?
Something about blocking access to data for not-logged-in visitors.
Blocking AI scrapers, I think.
Sheesh, didn’t take long for the Fediverse to follow Reddit into the “mine mine mine mine!” Mindset.
That doesn’t seem to be what is happening at all…
Do the AI scrapers use FediBuzz or just the same method as FediBuzz? If the latter, couldn’t the servers just issue a private API key (or whatever, I’m not that tech savvy) for FediBuzz?
Similar methods, I guess.
The guy running FediBuzz has been asking people to donate API keys as a workaround. It remains to be seen how it will all turn out.