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Ongoing bot attack (lemmy.today)

submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) by mrmanager@lemmy.today to c/announcements@lemmy.today

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Update: Another 30000 bots joined the party, so cpu usage is high at the moment. Site is slower than normal.

Appearently about 17500 bots are attempting to slow down our instance and eating bandwidth by grabbing the same files over and over.

They are banned for now but its an ongoing battle against these guys. Just wanted to let you know in case you notice worse performance. :)

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[–] Allero@lemmy.today 2 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Maybe just AI crawlers? Or the fact that the instance hosts some conservative content, which is not going well with many lemmings

[–] mrmanager@lemmy.today 1 points 18 hours ago

Yeah could be. There is a trend right now on social media where people think they need to push down and try to remove opinions they dont agree with.