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Have you considered alternatives to Cloudflare? (programming.dev)
submitted 2 months ago by xianjam@programming.dev to c/meta@programming.dev
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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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[–] lysdexic@programming.dev 2 points 2 months ago

You’re asking for specifics on their concerns while not providing the specifics that were already in place in your claim here.

If you want to change something, the very least that's expected of you is that the change actually fixes something.

If you can't even put together a description of exactly what's broken, obviously you can't tell if your proposal is even able to fix anything.

And may I point out the fact that this very discussion starts by admitting that alternatives are not effective?

Change for the sake of change is a pointless endeavour. Moreso if it comes from mindless militancy.