How About Ordinary Middleware?

Ordinary Labs released v0.8 of Ordinary with initial support for middleware, focusing on validation via HTTP requests. The release highlights integration with Iocaine, a service that filters AI scrapers, and plans to use Ordinary Proxy to validate requests for their GoToSocial instance.

With v0.8 https://codeberg.org/ordinarylabs/Ordinary/releases/tag/v0.8.4 , we’ve added initial support for Ordinary Middleware. For this first release we’ve kept narrowly focused on validation operations that can be delegated to external services via HTTP request. One tool that we’re excited about and is well-aligned with our NoAI agenda is Iocaine https://iocaine.madhouse-project.org —a service which runs as a separate daemon that filters out requests from ‘AI’ scrapers based on request headers. Building on the proxy functionality that we introduced last week https://ordinary.blob/posts/introducing-ordinary-proxies v0.7.0 , we’ll be using an Ordinary Proxy to front our very own GoToSocial https://gotosocial.org instance and run validation of all proxied requests against Iocaine before forwarding.