Cloudflare "Bot Fight Mode" and federation trafic (indie-ver.se)

submitted 3 weeks ago by ssnoer@indie-ver.se to c/lemmy_support@lemmy.ml

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Cloudflare's "Bot Fight Mode", the Cloudflare captcha, is great at preventing bots, but I am afraid it might block federation related traffic.

Does anybody have actual experience in this regard? Is there anyone who has successfully deployed Lemmy with "Bot Fight Mode", maybe with some exceptions configured?

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[-] ssnoer@indie-ver.se 3 points 3 weeks ago

Actually, you could pose the same question with Anubis

[-] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 3 points 3 weeks ago

Anubis definitely lead to some breakages where images wouldn't load for users of other instances viewing them in an app.

[-] BlackEco@lemmy.blackeco.com 2 points 3 weeks ago

As long as there is a bypass for /inbox it should be fine. I used to run my instance behind a WAF and I had to add that path to the allowlist so that federation requests would bypass it.

this post was submitted on 10 Jan 2026

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