AI-Training Data Scrapers are constantly attacking the feddit.online instance, in the last 24 hours about 70% of all traffic here was a bot of nefarious intent.
This is a continuation of the problems experienced last weekend which were temporarily snubbed by CloudFlare filtering them out, but they always return eventually.
This is the reason many users have been complaining about poor uptime/stability.
Scrapers make me so mad. Seriously, if you’re gonna steal the contents of the fediverse, at least do it via federation so it doesn’t disturb admins and users.
And much love to Sailor Jerry for captaining the ship through the storm.
Do you work in computer security ?