• aanes_appreciator [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    24 days ago

    This would effectively kill federation, no? You need go be able to view content without auth to display it on other instances.

    This may be necessary, but just a consideration!

    EDIT:

    There are other clever ways to kill webcrawlers such as sinkholes that send recursives down a path of bogus cheap-to-serve data, for example.

    Perhaps even using CAPTCHA or other auth to catch bots.

    Both still have the issue of federation tho.