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!
Is this why Thunderbird is suddenly spouting errors whenever it checks a lemmy.ca feed? I’m not a bot.
EDIT: fixed
Try now?
It looks like its working now. Thanks for for your help!
I didn’t realize thunderbird could access lemmy. Will look later today.
Wait, Thunderbird queue with Activity Pub or Lemmy?
Yep. The community pages all provide RSS feeds and Mastodon has them as well.
It’s so nice using it as an all-in-one newsfeed aggregated with everything else.
Now that you say that, I did set up another RSS reader to display a Lemmy RSS. Thunderbird sports RSS, therefore…