Almost every website and services are getting scraped at alarming rate, are Lemmy servers facing this issue?

Please share mitigations you've seen applied to this.

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[–] 11 points 1 year ago
[–] 19 points 1 year ago*

They don’t really need to scrape. They just have to set up their own federated instance and the ActivityPub protocol will willingly hand it all to them in a nicely parsable format.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago

    slrpnk.net has an AI intercept called Anubis, fwiw

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago

    Nepenthes

    One link on your website leads to a neverending labyrinth of nonesense to slowly poison a LLM.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    It's very easy for any activitypub content to be scraped, all servers practically serve the content on a silver platter to any federated server.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    We made a post about our actions here

    https://lemmy.ca/post/44214013

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    I'm sure the AI devs so lazy they cannot train their AI on anything other than scraped HTML can set up a Lemmy instance and point their crawlers at that.

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