@frogzone @lanodan @p

> methinks you may be shocked by how many sites are paying extortion money to CF.

It is unlikely I'd be surprised, I get greeted by their "Access Denied" pages often enough. According to demo.fedilist.com, we're just short of 28k instances (27,911) and about 20% of those are behind Cloudfed. (I just stopped clicking boats forever. Their boats are automated now but they still don't like to let me past. Fine with me.)

> its gotta be one of the most useful things I've ever read.

I stopped somewhere in the part where they start defining things and skimmed a while. It's kind of a lengthy screed, accomplishes something of questionable utility that definitely will not work on my machine, and with a goal that this thing will not achieve. (Of course the author does not think Bytedance/Reddit/Netflix are worth including on the list; I could speculate as to why.) So I start to smell "aimless bloviating activist" and then the TODO says they plan at some point to turn it into a bash script, which kind of sealed it. They picked the wrong target, the wrong criteria, an unachievable goal of stopping someone from owning too many IP addresses. (Seriously, is the problem that some people have too many IP addresses? How many IP addresses did Cambridge Analytica have? That MBA dickhead from MIT Sloan that scraped fedi to make censorship easier, he's got like a /29 or something, almost nothing.) I think this kind of thing does more harm than good: there's actual, productive stuff people can do but the grandiose, demonstrably useless wheel-spinning actually gets in the way. Like, it's a fun hack, no need to dress it up with a manifesto that actually hurts the alleged goal. It's performance art, but frustratingly close to something real.

(If it's a friend of yours that wrote it, maybe leave off the mean parts and tell him that he can stop scraping whois and just use https://ftp.ripe.net/pub/stats/ripencc/nro-stats/latest/ and that since IPv6 is 128-bit and a lot of ISPs hand out /64s, the limit of 2^24 is exceeded by most SIM cards.)