Thanks to a particularly annoying botnet, everyone's favorite anime cat girl firewall is now helping protect piefed.ca & lemmy.ca from bots and scrapers.
This is requests per second and these are all thousands of scrapers on residential IPs hammering us:
They'd increase their usage until the site started struggling, then move on. I banned their user agents, but have no interest in a cat & mouse game. Anubis should hopefully keep things running much smoother for everyone.
Let me know if you have any trouble!
Contrary to what my teachers tried to teach me, I am a user, mean, and req’d.
Take that, Mister Ecker!
It'll be nice to compare the next week's network traffic to the last one's and (presumably) see the spikes disappear.
There's definitely a noticeable drop.
I'm surprised our backend traffic so flat, but I'm assuming it's mostly federation
I don’t go to this school, but I’m gonna check whether I’m caught in your new net!
Edit: wew, I’m not a bot!
I like your nickname vs username.
Thank you! It felt like just the right amount of chicanery