To those who automatically assume humans with "weird" setups are "AI scrapers" (also a bit of a boogeyman these days): FUCK YOU. I'm a human, not a stupid mindless sheeple.
I assumed the author was one of those HN haters and was filtering by referrer. Now I'm curious.
Some people feel like we are being turned into content producers for large corporations to monetize and they’re not entirely wrong. I don’t mind when people take a stance, even if their methods aren’t perfect and it may inconvenience myself personally.
If you’re in rush to airport or hospital and you are delayed by protesters for a cause you don’t understand, it’s one thing, I could understand a bit of cursing. However, this is someone’s web resource, they are free to do with it whatever they want, and they owe you and me nothing.
Yeah, that's the part of the Fediverse that I really don't like...
All the talk about "putting the human first" and "embracing diversity" goes out of the window the moment you are not diverse in the way they want.