It seems cloudflare will be offering vendor lock-in fedi software. It's quite trivial to detect if a server is running behind a cloudflare IP and it's quite easy to do something using MRF.

Would you want such an MRF, and what functionality would you want in such an MRF?

We can drop messages, we can rewrite messages, we can make sure end users don't do calls to them by (re)moving attachments, we can mark accounts from such instances in some way...

We can also expand to not just detect cloudflare, but also other IP ranges, whitelist domains...

I already have a very quick-and-simple one to drop messages coming from them here https://git.pleroma.social/ilja/mrf/-/blob/develop/reject_cloudflare_policy.ex But I'm wondering if I should put more effort into making it more proper. (Or if someone wants to take the opportunity to get into *oma development, this could be a very good start if this is something that interests you :blobfoxwink: )

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