Thanks to a particularly annoying botnet, everyone's favorite anime cat girl firewall is now helping protect piefed.ca & lemmy.ca from bots and scrapers.

This is requests per second and these are all thousands of scrapers on residential IPs hammering us:

They'd increase their usage until the site started struggling, then move on. I banned their user agents, but have no interest in a cat & mouse game. Anubis should hopefully keep things running much smoother for everyone.

Let me know if you have any trouble!

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[–] 5 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (6 children)

Is this why Thunderbird is suddenly spouting errors whenever it checks a lemmy.ca feed? I'm not a bot.

EDIT: fixed

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  • [–] 4 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    Wait, Thunderbird queue with Activity Pub or Lemmy?

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