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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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[–] nothingcorporate@lemmy.today 16 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Keep up the great work Mr. Manager!

[–] SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 10 points 22 hours ago (1 children)
[–] RaoulDuke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 21 hours ago

Thats a bingo!

[–] Paradachshund@lemmy.today 7 points 21 hours ago
[–] Alice@hilariouschaos.com 3 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

Why are they doing that.? Dumb question i know

[–] mrmanager@lemmy.today 5 points 17 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. :)

[–] Allero@lemmy.today 2 points 17 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 17 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.

[–] Flagstaff@programming.dev 6 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Seeing this stuff freaks me out over the coming Orwellian state that will crush all free thought (in discussion boards like these, by shutting them down) through the might of its resources.

I hope the defense is sustainable. Thanks for what you do.

[–] mrmanager@lemmy.today 7 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

I think we are already there in some ways. But maybe more similar to Brave New World than 1984. People being unhappy but using things like media streaming and social media to get relief from the daily grind.

[–] theskyisfalling@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 16 hours ago

When do I get the soma to make it all more bearable?