Anonymous access to infosec.pub is disabled temporarily (infosec.pub)

submitted 1 month ago by jerry@infosec.pub to c/infosecpub@infosec.pub

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Scrapers are getting so bad that the lemmy containers are falling over, so I've disabled anonymous access to allow legit users to continue using the service. I will work on improving filtering so I can reenable anonymous access. Apologies for the inconvenience.

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[-] lazynooblet@lazysoci.al 5 points 1 month ago

How do you disable anonymous access? Something I've wanted to do for a while

[-] jerry@infosec.pub 6 points 1 month ago

Go to the site configuration page in the admin section, then look for the checkbox labelled "private instance".

[-] lazynooblet@lazysoci.al 4 points 1 month ago

Interesting. I've seen that option but this GitHub post made me think it would do more than what I wanted. https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3148

[-] jerry@infosec.pub 2 points 1 month ago

I think the original implementation of that setting disabled public access AND disabled federation, however it appears the ability to disable federation was subsequently split into a different setting. (I have private mode turned on and we are still communicating across instances, so I know federation is still working). I am not sure that is what you were referring to, though...

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