Post #524587
2026-03-04 20:06 UTC
It's been a long, long time. And I think it was mainly a hostage-taking tactic anyway.
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@groxx@hachyderm.io 2026-03-04 20:24
@ddr@pony.social I think I remember a couple things like this quite a long time ago, so I think you are remembering correctly. Relatively insular free community hosting, basically, with tight quotas for people who are not part of the community to prevent widespread hotlinking. You could do this with an iframe nowadays too, but sizing it correctly is still basically unsolved, I think? And it would probably use more resources, though not by much. But then again, I haven't heard of or thought about hotlinking as an issue for a long time now. I kind of wonder what changed. Maybe everyone just uses CDNs? Or sites copy files a whole lot more?