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   Chris Trottier (atomicpoet@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 10-Feb-2023 04:38:50 JST Chris Trottier

   So that's three big problems with Wildebeest right now:

   1. There's no account migration
   2. Block API hasn't been implemented
   3. The whole platform is designed to only work on Cloudflare

   Now I'm not saying that Wildebeest cannot improve with time, but I am saying there's important reasons to not use it right now.

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     Futurist Jim Carroll (jimcarroll@futurist.info)'s status on Friday, 10-Feb-2023 04:38:49 JST Futurist Jim Carroll

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     @atomicpoet Have you see the report that you can't move your instance/account later, i.e you are tied to Cloudflare? If that is true, that should kill this off. It seems like a great initiative, but it would be a shame if they bonehead the implementation.

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     Chris Trottier (atomicpoet@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 10-Feb-2023 04:38:50 JST Chris Trottier

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     I just looked at Wildebeest’s license.

     Yes, it’s open source, but it’s based on an Apache license—not AGPL.

     Nothing wrong with Apache in and of itself (apart from the cultural appropriation of the name ?), but it’s worth understanding why Cloudflare has gone this route instead of the AGPL…

     https://github.com/cloudflare/wildebeest/blob/main/LICENSE

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     Aswath Rao (aswath@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 10-Feb-2023 05:40:15 JST Aswath Rao

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     • Futurist Jim Carroll

     @jimcarroll @atomicpoet Wilderbeast & no migration. Unnatural juxtaposition! -)

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     Futurist Jim Carroll (jimcarroll@futurist.info)'s status on Friday, 10-Feb-2023 05:40:15 JST Futurist Jim Carroll

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     • Aswath Rao

     @aswath @atomicpoet Metaphors abound

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     Aswath Rao (aswath@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 10-Feb-2023 05:55:13 JST Aswath Rao

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     • Futurist Jim Carroll

     @jimcarroll @atomicpoet Can you or me one such report. Their blog post doesn't indicate TIA

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     Futurist Jim Carroll (jimcarroll@futurist.info)'s status on Friday, 10-Feb-2023 05:55:13 JST Futurist Jim Carroll

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     • Aswath Rao

     @aswath @atomicpoet This. I don't know his source.

     https://elk.zone/mastodon.neat.computer/@jonah/109835998207877546