I deliberately omitted those two. Notice I said “in the free decentralized world”. The sh.itjust.works and lemmy.world nodes should not be promoted because they are centralized (by two factors) and antithetical to the purpose of the fedi.
factor 1: disproportionate size thus concentration of power by those admins over an unacceptably large population.
factor 2: cloudflare, who currently decides who gets access to ~20—30% of all websites in the world. CF abuses their power and they marginalize several demographics of people (including poor people who live in regions where ISPs have to use CGNAT).
So I suggest not feeding those communities. It might be interesting to replicate their content here in such a way that it doesn’t link back to them.
It’s worth noting as well that Cloudflare’s breakage proliferates when CF’d nodes crosspost outside of their walled garden. E.g. if a CF-sourced image is crossposted to slrpnk.net, the image is inaccessible to me (and everyone else CF excludes) so I get a half missing post. Many people are here in the sufficiently decentralized portion of the fedi to escape abuses of concentrated power.
I wouldn’t have known what you mean by that without context.
factor 2: cloudflare
I wonder if they would be interested in alternatives to cloudflare. I’m assuming it’s the easiest one to deploy, but they may be open to alternatives if it isn’t too much trouble to switch.
I deliberately omitted those two. Notice I said “in the free decentralized world”. The
sh.itjust.worksandlemmy.worldnodes should not be promoted because they are centralized (by two factors) and antithetical to the purpose of the fedi.So I suggest not feeding those communities. It might be interesting to replicate their content here in such a way that it doesn’t link back to them.
It’s worth noting as well that Cloudflare’s breakage proliferates when CF’d nodes crosspost outside of their walled garden. E.g. if a CF-sourced image is crossposted to slrpnk.net, the image is inaccessible to me (and everyone else CF excludes) so I get a half missing post. Many people are here in the sufficiently decentralized portion of the fedi to escape abuses of concentrated power.
I wouldn’t have known what you mean by that without context.
I wonder if they would be interested in alternatives to cloudflare. I’m assuming it’s the easiest one to deploy, but they may be open to alternatives if it isn’t too much trouble to switch.