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[Update] Federation fixes (indie-ver.se)

submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by ssnoer@indie-ver.se to c/indieverse@indie-ver.se

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Indie-verse is currently hosted behind a Cloudflare proxy, which has saved the server a lot of traffic and helped protect against AI crawlers.

After some careful consideration I also enabled “Bot Fight Mode”, but only after making sure, I had working custom rules that skipped every security feature for federation related traffic. But it turns out, custom rules can’t skip Bot Fight Mode using a free plan, which I only found out today. This has left me with no choice, but to disable bot fight mode for now, and it will not be re-enabled while we are on the free plan.

Currently I don’t have the money to upgrade us, but it should not pose an issue, as there are other security measures against bots, that should prevent potential issues.

Thought I would let you know.

- ssnoer

PS: we also just got our very first donation. Thank you guys!

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[–] ssnoer@indie-ver.se 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Also, thanks to @BentiGorlich@infosec.pub for letting me know of the issue in the first place.

[–] BentiGorlich@thebrainbin.org 1 points 1 month ago

Thanks for looking into it :)

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You might want to reach out to some admins of other instances about bot protection measures if you're having any issues. As I understand it, db0's bot protection has worked well.

[–] ssnoer@indie-ver.se 2 points 1 month ago

I mean, I don't know how much of an issue bots are going to be. There hasn't really been any issues on indie-ver.se, but I will definitely keep this in mind. Thanks!