@steffo not really unless you're an admin of those instances, have another way to view the federation list (i forgot), or know the URL of the relays in question
@akurilov@rail_@mawhrin Mastodon is a social media platform, not a bot. Mastodon is also more than just Mastodon.social, I feel the need to point that out because you are using a Mastodon.social account. The post at the top of this thread literally shows the Awakari bot account following them. I used the term "Mastodon bot" because people use the term "Fediverse" and "Mastodon" interchangeably.
@akurilov@rail_@mawhrin a bot is "a computer program that performs automatic repetitive tasks". Mastodon is the largest fediverse server software. Awakari is a service that "Aggregates thousands of: Feeds ..., Fediverse Publishers and Telegram Channels". Awakari is very different to Mastodon but it uses a Mastodon account as a bot to aggregate, or "scrape", "Fediverse Publishers" as it calls them.
@akurilov@rail_@mawhrin your bot automatically sends follow requests in order to "get consent". Every fediverse server accepts all follow requests by default. This is pretty much functionally identical to automatically following users.
@akurilov@rail_@mawhrin Having a bot that automatically seeks out and follows users with the intent of scraping their profiles is something that most people do not want. Accepting follow requests from the bot is not an adequate form of consent when the default behaviour of every fediverse server is to automatically accept follow requests on the user's behalf. Suggesting that it is consent is disingenuous and abusive. If it was truly opt-in users would not need to be aware of the different opt-out mechanisms such as the nobot tag or account settings that some servers might not have. Moving your bot to a different domain name to bypass the large amount of blocks you have received is also extremely shitty. If you truly wanted it to be opt-in without manufacturing consent then the bot should operate off of mutual, 2-way following, not a follow request that most users will automatically accept with no input.
@LiquidParasyte yes. VSCode is kind of like Chrome (I'm not talking about electron). It's Microsoft's branded distribution of Code - OSS, which is like Chromium for this analogy. vsdbg only works on VSCode, it doesn't even work on the core project Code - OSS, let alone forks like VSCodium
@kura@Jain i know i'm just frustrated that that's the state of the ecosystem. everything is "free, open-source, cross-platform" except for the debugger
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. i use arch 
on desktops and debian 
on servers. this cat bites @CaptAsh :3
