Jerry

Jerry's post says he blocked 2 others. Other than lemmy.ml, what were the other 2?

I would think so. I'm not aware of any restrictions, unless they have some maximum number of emails in a specific time period.

I have my own mail server.

Setting up an email SMTP server for these applications has always been a PITA because many of the settings (ports, authentication type, etc.) need to be tried in different combinations before finding a combination that works. For example, I thought MOBILIZON_SMTP_SSL would work, but for some reason, it didn't, but TLS worked.

Maybe you just haven't found the right combination.

I use these settings, but you may need to do trial and error to get things right for your service.

MOBILIZON_SMTP_PORT=587 MOBILIZON_SMTP_SSL=false MOBILIZON_SMTP_TLS=if_available

I tried translating something before posting it to the same language (Thai) and apparently nobody understood what I was talking about. But enough people understood English, so at least some people would have understood me if I just posted it in English. The others could try translating.

Responding in English, if this is your language, is not Anglo domination. A lot of people learn English as a second language, so many know it. If you translate to Japanese and post it, then when people translate it to English, or Spanish, whatever, it will make no sense whatsoever.

When I traveled to France, a Middle Eastern family came into the restaurant and asked for the English menu. They couldn't read the French menu. But they knew enough English. That's when I realized that restaurants in France offered English menus, not for Westerners, but because more people in the world were likely to understand it rather than French.

I post in English. Translating from English to Spanish is better than English to Japanese to Spanish.

Well said

I see no legitimate reason for not using a User Agent string, like all the other crawlers use, other than the desire to hide the crawler and make it difficult to block.

I don't accept his explanation. I see it as gaslighting.

You can go to https://hear-me.social and click on the register button. This puts up a Cloudflare managed challenge screen which endlessly loops when using Pale Moon. It would be interesting to see if Waterfox has the same issue.

I just duplicated this. I downloaded Pale Moon and went to https://hear-me.social and clicked on "Register". It puts up a Cloudflare "managed challenge" which loops endlessly when using Pale Moon, but not the other browsers I've tried it with, including Zen, another Firefox fork.

It's a problem, for sure.

I'm so glad you pointed this out. I did not have this enabled on mine and I forgot about this option completely. I just enabled it.

Yes!

I have a Peertube server, and I've requested to follow tilvids, and they denied my request, and they also do not follow my Peertube server. I think one issue with tilvids may be that they essentially choose not to federate, and therefore you won't find much because of this.

I just searched for "Gaming" on my Peertube server and I seem to get a non-ending list of servers. Unfortunately, one column wide, but a lot. When I search for King's Quest, I am also getting a seemingly unending stream of videos.

I follow every Peertube server I can that is clearly not fascist, primarily NSFW, NSFL, etc.

Maybe you just need to find a server that is more federated with other Peertube servers.

I de-federated from it on 3 of my servers for all the reasons stated here.