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Shutting down the letsblock.it project and its official instance · letsblockit/letsblockit · Discussion #663 · GitHub
The letsblock.it project enables users to remove low-quality content and useless nags, to tailor their online experience and focus on what matters. It has been running for more than two years now and its official instance currently serves more than 800 active users and hundreds of anonymous visitors every day. We achieved this thanks to dozens of contributors and financial sponsors who I am grateful for. I started this project in 2021 as a way to help people regain agency over their online experience: enshittification of the commercial web had already started, but deceptive patterns and user-hostile features were not so prevalent yet. In that context, I naively hoped to be able to contain most of this through content filters and started writing the templates that became letsblock.it. Unfortunately, the commercial web is getting worse every day, with:
This project is making the commercial web more bearable, but I'd rather spend my energy on making the non-commercial web more attractive. I want to support communities and applications that respect their users and value what we have to say. These websites don't need letsblock.it rules, because they don't shove low-quality content and anti-features down our throats. What will happen
Provisional timelineMarch 2024: official announcement
April 2024: allowing users to migrate out
June 2024: shutdown of the official instance, archival of the projectAssuming that no external factors (cost increase, cyber attack...) require to shorten this delay:
What's next?After several failed projects and abandoned hobbies, launching letsblock.it and keeping it running for over two years is a big success in my book. I am very grateful to everyone who contributed to this project and made it possible. My motivation has always been to be useful to others and I think it's better to give our users a controlled shutdown than keep the project stale and unmaintained. This is not a call for contributors or new maintainers. If users want to take over this project's legacy, I'd prefer it to be done under a new name to avoid any confusion. Feel free to coordinate on this discussion though, and I'd be happy to support you with the setup. |
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