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FYI to anyone who recently set up a server for #fediverse stuff (like #kbin or #lemmy for the #redditmigration) and is just now having to learn how to set up a content cache in front of it to keep from paying a million dollar hosting bill for something that you thought would just be a nice hobby, you need to make sure of some things:

– Some key files need to be reachable without going through things like cloudflare’s bot detection because they are literally for bots! This includes stuff like `/robots.txt` but also everything under `/.well-known` (and especially `/.well-known/webfinger`).

– You NEED to make sure your cache “varies” content by the `Accept` header, which makes it so that if someone tries to friend you at `https://your.lemmy.example/u/whoever` from their mastodon server (or probably even from a different lemmy/kbin server), their server will be able to fetch the activitypub document for your user! Otherwise, they’ll get a cached copy of the html web page! I dunno how you do this with cloudflare, but with most reverse proxies you run yourself the thing you want is a setting for “vary” which will let you say what headers change the response type.

The next couple of days are probably going to be rough, but doing these things will make things a little better and a lot less confusing for your new users!

—@megmac

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Rod Hilton (@rodhilton@mastodon.social) (Mastodon)
You have to admit, regardless of your political beliefs, that a guy going to federal prison for years because when he himself was president he signed an order to increase the minimum sentence for the exact crime he committed is hands down the funniest shit that could ever happen and we are nanometers away from that once-in-a-lifetime hysterical occurrence from taking place. You have to want this to happen if you have any appreciation for comedy.
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Matt Blaze (@mattblaze@federate.social) (federate.social)
One thing that strikes me about the Trump documents case is that it's almost entirely a sequence of unforced errors that yielded almost no obvious benefit to him. It's just narcissistic recklessness, lies, doubling down, obstruction, conspiracy, rinse and repeat. He could have simply returned the documents he knew about and cooperated in the recovery of the others. But he can't help himself.
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Elon Musk Says Twitter Is Going To Get Rid Of The Block Feature, Enabling Greater Harassment by Mike MasnickMike Masnick

One of the most important tools for trust and safety efforts is the “block” feature, allowing a user to entirely block someone else from following them. Yes, on Twitter you can get around this by going into incognito mode, but overall, the feature is a very useful tool for those being harassed to limit access […]

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Steve (@sclower@mastodon.cloud) (mastodon.cloud)
The CEO of #AccessiBe is doing a "we're sorry we screwed up" tour across the internet, and claims he's apologized privately to those who have been fucked over by his company's tech. If so, I'm not one of them (despite my having had to create a guide to help people block their overlay from even loading). So until I get an apology or they take the product offline, I'm calling bullshit on the whole thing.