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The post Xitter web has spawned soo many āesotericā right wing freaks, but thereās no appropriate sneer-space for them. Iām talking redscare-ish, reality challenged āculture criticsā who write about everything but understand nothing. Iām talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. Theyāre inescapable at this point, yet I donāt see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldnāt be surgeons because they didnāt believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I canāt escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this.)
Sometimes while browsing a website I catch a glimpse of the cute jackal girl and it makes me smile. Anubis isnāt a perfect thing by any means, but itās what the web deserves for its sins.
Even some pretty big name sites seem to use it as-is, down to the mascot. Youād think the software is pretty simple to customize into something more corporate and soulless, but Iām happy to see the animal eared cartoon girl on otherwise quite sterile sites.
certainly better than seeing the damned cloudflare Click Here To Human box, although I suspect a number of these deployments still donāt sponsor Xe or the project development :/
Xe has talked a bit about the mascot in question before - by her own testimony, its there to act as a shopping cart test to see whoās willing to support the project. Reportedly, sheās planning to exploit it to make some more elaborate checks as well.
Huh, interesting approach. So the idea is that you either use the free version and (preferably) retain the anime girl mascot to promote Anubis itself, or you pay for a commercial license to remove animu in a way that is officially supported.
Basically. Its to explicitly prevent Xe from becoming the load-bearing peg for a massive portion of the Internet, thus ensuring this project doesnāt send her health down the shitter.
You want my prediction, I suspect future FOSS projects may decide to adopt mascots of their own, to avoid the āload-bearing maintainerā issue in a similar manner.
Seems a bit early to say whether others are going to do that. This experiment hasnāt had much time to prove itself and so far I havenāt recognized anyone using a corporate branded BotStopper instance, only the jackal girl version.
Responsibility manahement through branding is an interrsting idea and I wouldnāt mind seeing it working, but a prediction like that seems like jumping to conclusions prematurely. Then again, I guess thatās kinda what āpredictionā means in general.