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!

  • flameleaf@ani.social
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    3 days ago

    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.

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      3 days ago

      Now that you say that, I did set up another RSS reader to display a Lemmy RSS. Thunderbird sports RSS, therefore…