your project "Crawler defense with iocaine" (2026-04-406) is one of the selected proposals eligible to receive a grant from NLnet foundation
Now that is terrific news to wake up to.
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@eliasp I agree, it's sad that crawler defense is necessary. I'd love if it wasn't.
At the same time, I'm not sure there exists a world where the spirit of the open internet doesn't require actively defending against bad actors.
I mean, I can imagine one. But that world does not include billionaires, nor capitalism. Would love to get there, not convinced we can, not within my lifetime at least. Worth trying to, nevertheless! And actively defending against bad actors is, I believe, a part of that effort.
Drawing a line, resisting, fighting back - small things, but small things do add up sooner or later.
@algernon it's sad to see the Internet has become a place that makes projects like iocaine necessary in the first place.
I wonder what the Internet, its protocols, its development, its adoption, but most importantly its spirit of openness would have looked like, if it didn't start with the ideals of "there is no bad actor participating" back then.
Would we have come up with an architecture that allows to fundamentally prevent bad behaviour while still being open/anonymous/decentralized?