this post was submitted on 02 Oct 2025
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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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[–] mrmanager@lemmy.today 7 points 18 hours ago

I wish I knew. Maybe they dont like that we federate with all instances, including not popular ones. Maybe its because we blocked 16 million chinese ip addresses last week because they had tons of bots scraping the instance.

Just trying to run a small instance with good performance over here. :)