Welcome to the Suicide Server: what’s live and what’s next

Most of what’s linked on the homepage is now up and running. We still need to bring Linkwarden online, but even CryptPad and Lemmy are live:

Bot protection

We run several privacy frontends, which pushed us to test anti-bot tools like Anubis. Anubis won for its simplicity, and we’ve customized its policy so the gate tightens when the server is under heavy load.

If you like formulas, the idea is: when load rises, we drop the acceptance threshold, making it a bit stricter for a short period.

Heads-up: because of how our anti-bot checks work, you may need to temporarily disable anti-fingerprinting features in your browser to get through the gate. You can turn them back on after you’re allowed in.

We didn’t have Anubis in front of Quetre (a Quora frontend) at first, so Quora rate-limited our instance for a bit. It’s working again now.

Privacy frontends: current status

Binternet

We tested this Pinterest frontend and discovered it does not yet handle Pinterest link schemes. In practice it worked as a fast Pinterest image search, but not a redirector. The dev plans to add support and is asking for help, so we may bring it back later. To be clear, the confusion was on us because LibRedirect does support redirecting Pinterest links in browsers. The Binternet dev has done solid work.

GotHub

We removed our GotHub instance after finding it didn’t handle raw.github.com links correctly.

Wikiless

Works well as a Wikipedia frontend. One limitation: clicking images on a page won’t open the file directly. You can still open images in a new tab or copy the image address, so we’re keeping it.

BreezeWiki

Live and working. We made a small code change to remove a banner promoting a browser extension by the same dev team. That choice was just to reduce mixed guidance for users. The project and its devs are excellent.

Files, notes, and sharing

Lutim

Image hosting with embeddable links. Images are encrypted server-side and are cleaned up after a while if they go inactive.
Project page – https://lut.im

PrivateBin

Pastebin with client-side encryption, optional file uploads, and comments. We can’t see what you paste or upload.
Our instance – https://paste.suicideserver.net/

URL shortener: scd.li

Handy for shrinking the long URLs produced by Lutim galleries and PrivateBin (example: https://scd.li/ss). This is an instance of rs-short.
Service – https://scd.li/

We’ll cover the rest of our services in future posts. In the meantime, feel free to explore and let us know what helps you most.