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Now even my personal instance is infested by these AI crawlers (potato-guy.space)

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It's impossible, i got this instance to just see lemmy from my own instance, but no, it was slow as hell the whole week, i got new pods, put postgres on a different pod, pictrs on another, etc.

But it was slow as hell. I didn't know what it was until a few hours before now. 500 GETs in a MINUTE by ClaudeBot and GPTBot, wth is this? why? I blocked the user agents, etc, using a blocking extension on NGINX and now it works.

WHY? So google can say that you should eat glass?

Life is now hell, if before at least someone could upload a website, now even that is painfull.

Sorry for the rant.

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[-] [email protected] 39 points 6 days ago

Use Anubis. That's pretty much the only thing you can do against bots that they have no way of circumventing.

[-] [email protected] 15 points 6 days ago

Yeah, going to install it this week, but the nginx extension seemed to solve the issue.

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