Poor lemmy server went from constant 80-100% cpu load to gently coasting.

That thing must have been dragging things down for months, if not years.

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      24 days ago

      Unclear - it didn’t have a useragent, but it was scraping all the posts: /api/v3/post/list?limit=50&sort=Old&page=56273 - it was on page 56273. The IP address is associated with a VPN, so I’m sure they’ll try through some other way - but that won’t help them :P

      I don’t know what they plan to gain from this anyway - they’re better off scraping this content directly from Reddit themselves. I know a bot that shows how to do it ;)