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.
Yes, my IP was the one in x.154.x.x. It seems all good now! Thanks for getting it fixed so quick!
Thank you for letting me know! Based on the logs, it wasn’t just you. There were about 6 others using Summit and Boost. Unsure about other phone apps. Interestingly, the Voyager app has no problem, so I didn’t realize there was an issue because it’s what I tested with.
Please reach out if you encounter any other problems. The firewall rules are meant to surgically stop the 290K AI scrapes that have been coming in daily. It’s difficult to decide if a request is from an AI agent or a user. I expected some collateral damage. There may be more.