Gravitywell

Omg I remember when those bears tts videos where everywhere, simpler times.

Looks like You searched under housing. Try searching under “pets”

Oh interesting! Thank you.

Thanks but i meant the site in the original post https://cheapskatesguide.org/articles/debian-netinstall-waf.html

It says

403 Error Your IP address has been blocked. This MAY be because you have made yourself look like a robot by using an unknown VPN or Tor exit node.

I just wish i could read it, it seems to block based on my IP which isn’t really a good way to identify bots.

Well it cant be that good becauase it thinks im a bot.

Anubis works pretty well for me so far in blocking clankers.

Well yes, one would need sys-admin skills to setup and maintain a Lemmy instance in the first place.

I’m happy to assist other admins if needed. Maybe I’ll write up a post about it later.

They mainly self identify, it was super obvious when they started showing up in logs. Even without the user agents to Id, the volume of request make it clear that its clanker behavior.

I’ve been meaning to setup a tar pit, but for now I just have nginx setup to redirect them and if they still keep trying fail2ban kicks in and blocks them by IP.

It doesn’t matter if they respect it or not, iptables doesn’t give a fuck.

Its not that hard to block them, I have basically a single user Lemmy and it was constantly getting hammered by meta and anthropic but then I blocked their user agents. They just get endless redirects now.