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Anonymous access to infosec.pub is disabled temporarily (infosec.pub)
submitted 6 months ago by to c/infosecpub@infosec.pub
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Scrapers are getting so bad that the lemmy containers are falling over, so I've disabled anonymous access to allow legit users to continue using the service. I will work on improving filtering so I can reenable anonymous access. Apologies for the inconvenience.

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[–] 1 point 2 months ago (2 children)

Just curious, is this what is preventing our communities from being shown on things like lemmyverse.net?

for example, searching for cybersecurity communities there doesn't show ours, at least for me.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 2 months ago (1 child)

    I think it is because I disabled anonymous access due to the AI scrapers continuously causing the instance to crash. I just reenabled anonymous access which should allow it to be indexed by those sites, but it may cause some instability

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago

    Thanks for the reply. It really sucks that our options seem to be break discoverability, or get scraped to death...

    Anyway please do whatever you think is best, we trust you! I was mostly just curious if this was maybe why. As always thanks for your work maintaining this instance!

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