Last night, I was in the omg.lol IRC chatroom as I often am. I got talking about my folk.zone project, how I got my own IRC server up-and-running and was now working on getting an instance of BookWyrm spun up. Pablo Murad, a fellow web tinkerer, asked me about how I was running the project, and how I dealt with CGNATs blocking port forwarding for home servers. I explained I was lucky enough to have a fixed public IPv4 address, and that I was using Cloudflare's Zero Trust Tunnelling system to bypass the whole ordeal anyway. Then, Adam, the creator of omg.lol chimed in. And this led to a heart-to-heart conversation that made me realize I need to slow down with everything—for the only reason I started folk.zone was because I have been a passionate user of omg.lol for the past year. He explained how none of omg.lol uses Cloudflare's infrastructure, despite the fact the alternatives are much more difficult and expensive, but it was worth it because of how unethical and antithetical…
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