@vkc wow, posting that got me followed by someone from a "skinhead" instance. That's an immediate instance block from me.

@vkc I do not consent to your harassers being gatekeepers of who belongs here. You belong here. You make this place better.

@tehstu @ryanprior @osm_tech oh and of course the scraper would have to respect pihole versus using its own hard coded DNS IP to resolve things.

@tehstu @ryanprior @osm_tech pihole works by refusing to provide DNS resolution for domains on its blocklists, so it could block a scraper *if* its functionality depends on resolving a domain name that is blocked by pihole.

@osm_tech does coming from residential IPs mean that someone has baked a scraper into some popular tool that people don't realize is doing that?

@tknarr @neil I'm saying that the implementation of them becomes overwhelmingly a social issue. It's already been tried and failed multiple times at the instance level because of abuse. All it takes is collusion among a group of bad actors to pump up ratings etc.

@tknarr @neil this idea is not new to the fediverse. Multiple major efforts have occurred and then faded away after being hijacked for personal vendettas.

The problem is it's a social issue more than a technological one.