Good morning everyone. Just a quick heads up that I've banned a good chunk of IP space in China due to abusive traffic.
I've tried to restrict this where possible to datacenter blocks from Huawei, Tencent, and Alibaba, but China Telecom / Mobile were also heavy sources of suspicious traffic. I doubt we have many (if any) users in China, but if you are affected please let me know.
This has been ongoing for a while and I ignored it initially since the traffic levels were low, but it wasn't anymore.
The ban has very visibly cut our traffic levels:
Just saw this from dbzer0:
https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/44522693
Another one I've heard of is Anubis.
No idea if either of these would be appropriate in this case.
Neat - https://iocaine.madhouse-project.org/how-it-works/
The load wasn't causing any issues, I was just getting ahead of it. I'm not worried about deploying countermeasures yet.
Also see https://lemmy.ca/post/43060353
I might try out anubis on old.lemmy.ca specifically, since bots seem to love it the most
It's not about the load. It's about not letting the bots know they've been blocked and making them switch to residential proxies and thus making them harder to block.