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      we removed the instance-wide configuration that blocks emails with HTML parts, putting list owners in full control

      This seems like a good omen. I like lots of things about SourceHut but it is definitely pretty opinionated in ways that I don’t always agree with. Some opinions are necessary to make a cohesive product without infinite complexity but I would love to see some more flexibility in the future.

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        It’d be amazing to know how they combated the ai scrapers.

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          Unfortunately, measures like that are usually kept secret if only for the little respite they bring via obscurity.

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            I believe a large part of that is blocking specific ranges and ISPs; I couldn’t access SourceHut from anywhere within my home district, though I could access properly at school. Fortunately this doesn’t seem to affect SSH operations.

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              I did spot some trapdoor / tarpit links on a code base the other day.

              Marked as something like “Do not Click”. I suspect the text of such links may have to change in future…

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                They will be marked with “Free training data inside!” or similar.

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              This took so long and added zero value for our users, yet it was inevitable.

              This was a surprisingly enjoyable and interesting read :)

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                Pleroma who once had an update mentioning a feature with

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                Nobody asked, and we listened. You can now […]

                and I use that all the time 😉

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                Glad to see improvements to the dev workflow, I tried setting up a local sourcehut instance a couple years ago and the tangle of repositories and dependencies was frustrating.

                I wish all of the services were just in a single repository that was capable of building each service binary separately.

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                  Please, add “ai” tag :)

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                    Why? Now this story will be hidden for everyone who filters on the ai tag… but the story isn’t primarily about AI (it just mentions bots at one point).

                    I enjoyed reading this but I would have missed it if it was tagged ai when it was submitted.