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

Cloudflare projecting its dominating power onto lemmy?

[-] lysdexic@programming.dev -1 points 22 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?

[-] Feyter@programming.dev 1 points 10 minutes ago* (last edited 10 minutes ago)

OK, if there is a monopolistic instance between you and the rest of the world that decides who can reach you and who not and you are depending on that single monopolistic instance, I think we all agree that this is a bad thing.

Potential threads from this are (but not limited to):

  • cloudflare going up in price and you have to take it.
  • cloudflare is blocking or restricting access to your page, because of political dispute.
  • cloudflare collects meta data to reconstruct user behavior and social relationship and uses it to pressure individuals.
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