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!
F the bots. Would like to be able to have nice things. Happy that at least this is the ๐จ๐ฆ-made solution (at least the primary dev, anyways).
Does Fedecan have the budget to throw a couple of bucks a month to Xe? Completely understand if not, I've done not-for-profit corps before and I know what it's like. But if the budget is there, spending it on a Canadian dev would be a nice choice, IMO.
Oh I didn't realize they were Canadian, we'll discuss!