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Are there any Lemmy servers facing AI scraping invasion? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 4 days ago by greywolf0x1@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Almost every website and services are getting scraped at alarming rate, are Lemmy servers facing this issue?

Please share mitigations you've seen applied to this.

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[–] Forester@pawb.social 8 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Out of curiosity, I am not familiar with the stack that runs the behind the scenes at all for lemmy. Are you blocking IP ranges or something else?

[–] potatoguy@potato-guy.space 7 points 3 days ago

I use this nginx extension, it has a lot of rules, they mix IP, user agent, etc, to block a response it seems. Like adblocking rules, but for bots.