i never did this trick, and with the exceptions of ads, my timeline has been chronological since september. pretty sure there's a setting for it somewhere, but i can't find it.
Theory: the IP address seen by Postmill is that of a reverse proxy which sends the actual end user's IP thorugh X-Forwarded-For or similar. However, Postmill/the web server hasn't been configured to use these headers, and the random bans happen because the reverse proxy used in the moment of posting has an IP address with a ban meant for another user.
Also worth noting that users marked as 'trusted' aren't subject to IP ban checks, but explicitly marking everyone as trusted is a pain in the butt of course.
its like when you do a terrible job of applying concealer and end up with tons of it in your eyelashes, then don't use any other makeup. looks pretty ghosty to me.
this was a thing that happened
At the time of writing, Postmill is the only public project on GitLab with 69 stars
emma wrote (edited )
Reply to plaintext passwords are Really Bad. i'm not crazy am i? by twovests
i only trust vendors who've taken the enlightened, moderate approach of hashing half the password, and letting the other half remain in plain text.
but yeah, it's bad