Yeah, that's a very common thing with Mlmym, and a lot of instances have that issue. It's also hard to rate-limit because all client connections to the API come from Mlmym's server rather than the users.
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Yeah that was the exact issue. I figured I could just forward the real ip from the incoming connection to the container, but couldnt get it to work.
There must be a way, I will keep looking.
...turns out its because the old.lemmy.today user interface was being hammered and scraped by bots.
Of course it was bots.
Very annoying. But big thank you for sending me that message about the slow server! :)
This will be fixed eventually, just need to figure out a good config I think.
Thanks for your efforts Mr. Manager! 🍌
Cant let the bots win!
thanks for posting about it, I was very confused.
ps. If your username is an Arrested Development reference, I especially love it!
:) Its not but now I have to check that out!
The username is just a joke really. The entire office culture of managers and how they see themselves as very important, often just making the place worse for employees. :)
is it thats why the site lags from time to time while loading posts.
Thanks. Let us know how we can support you
Just spread the word about the instance if you like the hands off approach to moderation. :)
Sounds good sir!
I like the open federation (I think one instance was banned - not even sure which but must be deserved) and relaxed moderation.
Thank you for your work. As long as we keep the bots and any prolific spammers off it’s a great model for the fediverse.
Naah, we are still in perfect shape, 0 instances blocked and 0 instances blocking us: https://federation-checker.vercel.app/
Compare with lemmy.world for fun. I mean, I understand a super large instance needs to do what it needs to do though. But there are nice bonuses to being small.
btw, I just noticed that old.lemmy.world has a Cloudflare captcha check (not sure if it's only old or their main), I wonder if it's to deal with the bot scraping?
You mentioned IP rate limiting but it's possible that the CF-captcha could help
We dont use cloudflare so thats a bit strange. Can you show a screenshot when that happens?
Probably difficult for me to capture, but I'm saying that WORLD is using the cloudflare captcha, so maybe an option to put on this instance?