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Hi there, I wouldn't be making this post if I saw another one about it, but...

I both dislike centralization and nonfree Javascript. I believe the spirit of Lemmy embraces both ideals, however, Cloudflare both promotes a centralized internet that requires the execution of nonfree scripts to interact with it. I understand that bots (epsecially LLM powered) are a pervasive issue that plagues this (and many other) communities. I also understand that being logged-in prevents the requirement of using Cloudflare's captcha, so that only a one-time login is required, although I'm constantly blocking requests to cloudflareinsignts.com.

Finally, I understand that I the alternatives are not necessarily effective, although it seems to work for many projects. I'm not saying other solutions are better for short or medium term, but I was wondering if the management were planning on eventually replacing it.

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[-] Feyter@programming.dev 13 points 1 day ago

I trink this is rooted in forward thinking. If cloud flare gets a monopoly in that position (what it arguably already has), they can project all the power of a monopoly about us...

So this is more about preventing future problems and not solving problems that exist.

[-] lysdexic@programming.dev -2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

So this is more about preventing future problems and not solving problems that exist.

The question remains unanswered: which problems, hypothetically or otherwise, would this migration solve?

[-] Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 23 hours ago

Cloudflare projecting its dominating power onto lemmy?

[-] lysdexic@programming.dev -1 points 21 hours ago

Cloudflare projecting its dominating power onto lemmy?

I'm sorry, this assertion is meaningless scaremongering. What exactly is "projecting it's dominating power" supposed to mean?

And by the way, may I point out that site maintainers purposely adopted Cloudflare to serve specific purposes?

[-] refalo@programming.dev 2 points 23 hours ago

Personally I cannot visit most crimeflare sites because it just gives me an infinite captcha loop... so moving away from them seems like that would solve that issue.

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