If that stupid anime girl made me wait another second I wouldn't have upvoted.
It's so performative to make life worse for all your viewers so your viewers know you hate AI crawlers.
But seriously, open chat protocols are one of the most interesting parts of the de-enshittification puzzle, but trying to make people's lives miserable the way big tech does is not the way forward. A funny part of XMPP being "not cool" is that it is actually quite popular for soldiers and cops as it can be customized to store everything about interactions with the public in a Lotus Notes database (Baltimore) or have an officer fill out a form every day about contacts with the enemy and send it back to command over a sporadically available network connection.
elpocko•1d ago
I added this to my uBlock filters to hide that stupid anime girl on every site that has it:
||*anubis/static/img/pensive.webp$image
DoctorOW•16h ago
I find it strange that this comment first advocates the website author subsidize data collection for big tech, a group which it immediately clarifies "make people's lives miserable".
tomjuggler•9h ago
I'm adding chat to my site, and I'm writing it from scratch. Somebody stop me!
The anime is great by the way, way better than cloudflare checkbox - where can I hire her to protect my chat users?
PaulHoule•1d ago
It's so performative to make life worse for all your viewers so your viewers know you hate AI crawlers.
But seriously, open chat protocols are one of the most interesting parts of the de-enshittification puzzle, but trying to make people's lives miserable the way big tech does is not the way forward. A funny part of XMPP being "not cool" is that it is actually quite popular for soldiers and cops as it can be customized to store everything about interactions with the public in a Lotus Notes database (Baltimore) or have an officer fill out a form every day about contacts with the enemy and send it back to command over a sporadically available network connection.
elpocko•1d ago
DoctorOW•16h ago