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dbzer0 Lemmy is not working on my IP (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 months ago by Cypher45@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/lemmy_support@lemmy.ml

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I don't know what happened, but since yesterday, the Boost for Lemmy App stopped working so I visited the instance website (dbzer0) in my browser and I was getting these... texts with choices (which lead to even more pointless texts)

I don't think I am banned because if I use VPN, I can reload the webpage on my WiFi and see the real dbzer0 lemmy again, and I can login and create posts, but the moment I turn off my VPN, it all goes back to the same white page with those texts.

My Mobile Data also works loads the website, but my WiFi doesn't without a VPN for some reason.

Please help!

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[–] naom3@hexbear.net 0 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Yeah that’s definitely an ai tarpit (I think that’s the term?) the idea is to trap scrapers in an endless loop of pages with randomly generated text to poison their training data. Your ip address probably got flagged as being a bot so you need to talk to one of the admins to get it unblocked

[–] tenchiken@anarchist.nexus 0 points 2 months ago

Exactly this. We use iocaine for the tarpit.

[–] Cypher45@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 2 months ago

Ahhh I see! That makes a lot of sense lol