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Open Source Projects Receive Funding to Reclaim the Public Internet

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473 points edent | 1 comments | 23 Apr 25 07:20 UTC | HN request time: 0.329s | source
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eichin ◴[23 Apr 25 15:51 UTC] No.43773527[source]▶
With a catchphrase like "reclaim the public internet" I expected they were funding Anubis https://xeiaso.net/blog/2025/anubis/ (don't get me wrong, they've got a neat list of projects, I'm just quibbling with what's "public internet" about solar powered motherboards or Ada bootstrapping.)
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eadmund ◴[23 Apr 25 15:53 UTC] No.43773544[source]▶
Anubis isn’t really about reclaiming the public internet, though: it’s about excluding some internet users. It has its reasons, of course, but it’s fundamentally about making the internet not a commons.
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1. freddydumont ◴[23 Apr 25 16:14 UTC] No.43773754[source]▶
While I get your point about Anubis excluding some users, its purpose is to protect the "commons" from those who would abuse and destroy them: big tech crawlers that do not respect robots.txt files.