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Back in the day, Twitter used to be really good if I set up a thread to connect freelancers with clients. Let's see if Mastodon can do it.
Clients: if you're looking for freelancers/contractors, get in the comments
Freelancers/contractors: get in the comments
Everyone else: boosts appreciated.
The market is *dead* for freelancers and a big part of that (in my opinion) is fragmentation. Let's get that network effect *back*.
Landed on this method over using something like Anubis because I wasn't wild about the interstitial page that tools like it toss up to do the proof-of-work part.
Also, I really love finding new reasons to use Nginx's `return 444`.
I've decided to share the sketchy user-agent blocking setup that I've been using on my Nginx servers to keep some of the most annoying AI crawlers and scrapers away.
"AI is Sea-Monkeys."
[…]
"Sea-Monkeys were my first experience with hype cycles. In retrospect, $1 was a good price for that lesson."
https://buttondown.com/monteiro/archive/how-to-keep-sea-monkeys-alive/