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Microblog Memes

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A place to share screenshots of Microblog posts, whether from Mastodon, tumblr, ~~Twitter~~ X, KBin, Threads or elsewhere.

Created as an evolution of White People Twitter and other tweet-capture subreddits.

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  1. Please put at least one word relevant to the post in the post title.
  2. Be nice.
  3. No advertising, brand promotion or guerilla marketing.
  4. Posters are encouraged to link to the toot or tweet etc in the description of posts.

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[–] io@piefed.blahaj.zone 10 points 4 days ago

first, the ips of all vpn providers are known, the problem with the cheap/free ones is that they spy on you.

instead of blocking ips use proof of work for those sus ips https://github.com/TecharoHQ/anubis

(it's the anime girl that checks if you are a bot. :3)

it drives the cost of crawling at scale high up while being minor for individual, "legit" requests

all the cool kids are using it