I want to see if I can get a spark of the "old internet" back by making a starting page for myself with all kinds of cool websites. But not sure where to start because Google obviously will not work for this....
There is now an (intermediate) option for setting federated repos via UI.
Based on that we are currently developing the sending of activities to distribute stars to the federated repos.
We also noticed that there are some things to consider, regarding activity sending. Feel invited to share your thoughts on this. 🙂
It usually isn't super hard to tell apart randomized junk like this from real human patterns. That is why Tor Browser for example tries its best to make everyone look the same instead of randomizing everything.
That said, for the mere purpose of throwing off the ISPs profiling algorithms, you could make a relatively simple python program to solve this. A naive solution would just do an http GET to each site, but a better solution would mimic human web browsing:
Get a list of various news sites and political forum sites
Setup headless firefox or chromium
Use Selenium or similar to crawl links on each site. Make sure you have the pages fully load and wait a random amount of time that a human would before going to the next page.
If you have no programming capability this will be rough. If you have at least a little you can follow tutorials and use an LLM to help you.
The main issue with this goal is that it isn't possible to tell how advanced your ISP's profiling is, so you have no way to know if your solution is effective.
Next step on our way to federated-stars in #forgejo was "reliable mapping for federated users". Even if this is something under the hood, that was an important milestone.
Just imagine, did you want to contribute when the honour ends up with someone else?
testing keeps on testing, using some hashtags > let's see whether these hashtags help to improve visibility of kbin posts on other fedi platforms #test#kbin#federation
What are your favourite lesser known websites?
I want to see if I can get a spark of the "old internet" back by making a starting page for myself with all kinds of cool websites. But not sure where to start because Google obviously will not work for this....
ISP junk generator
Is there something that can generate random Internet usage to make the real sites I go to a bit obfuscated?...
Help trying to extract some data
In my file, I have...