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Alternative Link (AltLink/MitiGator)
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This is opt-in
service.
- Contents
A little history
Once upon a time there was a bot named "CloudflareLink" which was created by Anonymous. It replied to many users who shared CF links publicly.
Not many people reacted it positively. Here is some of them.
To the owner of this bot
You should be ashamed.
Quit drive by bro'ing our statuses.
Please fornicate with a pointy stick.
Pointing to a copy rather than the original document if it's still online is bad practice too. Also, you are a very annoying bot.
They got annoyed and Mastodon server owner was pressured by their "spam" reports.
One of Mastodon server owner once said, "your little protest bot is making people upset, and i'm worried it might cause people to defederate from the instance, please tone it down."
For the record "CloudflareLink" was moved to other Mastodon servers 3 times and banned 2 times by 2 Mastodon services until the Anonymous decided to given up for good.
The main difference of AltLink is opt-in
.
Those people who share Cloudflare links casually never receive notification until they have a good heart and follow AL.
How to Subscribe
- Follow MitiGator.
- Don't have Mastodon account?
- Some instances such as mastodon.social are blocking Altlink.
- AL will follow back you within an hour.
- If you're locking your account, please accept AL's follow request otherwise AL can't read your toots.
- If you do not accept follower request within 15 hours, your follower status will be resetted.
- If there is a network instability and AL failed to follow back you after 1 hour:
- Please
unfollow
,wait 1 hour
, andfollow
again.
- Please
- When you share Cloudflared link, AL will send
direct
message to you with information.
- Non-public messages older than 1 day will be deleted.
- There is no good reason to keep old toots online.
How to Unsubscribe
- Just
unfollow
AL's account on your side.
- AL will unfollow you within an hour.
- AL do not attempt to re-follow you.
- If you've changed your mind and want to subscribe(opt-in) again,
unblock
,unfollow
AL andfollow
again.
"Is it really CloudFlare!?" check
Just send domain name
or URL
as direct message
and AL will answer within 1 minute.
Here's an example.
@mitigator blog.emsisoft.com
You can also query multiple at once / mix domain and URLs
@mitigator
en.wikipedia.org
https://blog.emsisoft.com/wow/
www.wikimedia.org
Meme Generator
Want to talk/complain about Cloudflared site in a humerous way? Try Meme Generator by sending URL as direct message.
- If you send non-Cloudflared link it will be silently ignored.
Syntax: @MitiGator meme URL
Put Cloudflared URL like this...
@mitigator meme https://cflove.myblog.site/cloud_is_internet/?blog=true
@mitigator
Meme https://invite.party/cloudflare_users_only/
Suggest clean alternatives
Just ask (send direct message to) Mitigator and he will provide some suggestions.
- This is related to Settings'
Suggest other non-Cloudflare alternative sites when available
.- If there is a network problem or there is no alternative MG will not reply anything.
Syntax: @MitiGator ?URL
or ?URL
Put Cloudflared URL like this...
@mitigator ?https://cflove.myblog.site/cloud_is_internet/?blog=true
@mitigator
?https://invite.party/cloudflare_users_only/
1 question per toot. Below does not work.
@mitigator
?https://matthew.prince/blog/
?https://matthewprince.site/
?https://matthew.prince.name/
Report a problem / Create an Issue
(To use this you need to enable Circle
option)
You can create an Issue without git account. Just send a direct message.
And don't worry,
- Multiple mentions (e.g.
@randomUser @mitigator @otherUser blah blah blah
) - Public message (e.g.
there's a bot called @mitigator
)
...will be ignored to prevent spam.
Your username part (before @
) will be masked to protect your privacy.
Settings
You can configure mitigator from this website. There are 2 ways:
- Open above website and follow the steps.
- Or Send one of below keyword as
direct
message to mitigator.cfg
conf
config
set
settings
- e.g.
@mitigator Settings
@mitigator cfg
- e.g.
Download PNG Logo
For your poster/meme needs.
MitiGator's profile image shows an orange shield and a cartoon of the mascot character, 𝙈𝙞𝙩𝙞𝙂𝙖𝙩𝙤𝙧, who stands proud as the MITM Prevention Alligator. The mascot wears a referee top and red sash across chest. Above the shield is 'MitiGator' in arching, bold, small caps, serif lettering.
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- Let us know if above account is censored by aggressive Cloudflare supporters.
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