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!
I don’t go to this school, but I’m gonna check whether I’m caught in your new net!
Edit: wew, I’m not a bot!
I like your nickname vs username.
Thank you! It felt like just the right amount of chicanery
It’ll be nice to compare the next week’s network traffic to the last one’s and (presumably) see the spikes disappear.
There’s definitely a noticeable drop.
I’m surprised our backend traffic so flat, but I’m assuming it’s mostly federation
Contrary to what my teachers tried to teach me, I am a user, mean, and req’d.
Take that, Mister Ecker!