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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] 13 points 2 weeks ago

these solutions have the side effect of making the bots stay on your site longer and generate more traffic. it's not for everyone.

this post was submitted on 08 Jun 2025

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