Hi guys,

We are now trying out Anubis in front of https://old.lemmy.today/ to see if we can block many of the bots scraping lemmy content.

You will notice an image saying Anubis is checking if you are a bot, and then things should work normally after that.

There are many millions of ips trying to scrape lemmy content so blocking on ip level is difficult. Hopefully this improves the situation somewhat. :)

Thanks to @db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com for sharing info about Anubis!

Edit: It was a lot better to just turn off public access of posts on old.lemmy.today, so we are actually not using Anunis anymore. Just log in to old.lemmy.today and things will work as normal.

  • mrmanager@lemmy.todayOPM
    3·
    1 month ago

    Lemmy federation has been known to be buggy in certain releases before, and I really dont know what to do about it except try to keep up to date about bugs. I guess its a complex system underneath. From what ive read, its a queue of federation work that is supposed to take place, and stay in the queue until its successful. But I wish there was a good way to see the status of it.

    I have been looking in db tables and log files before to figure out the current status and it works, but its not so convenient.

    • db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      3·
      1 month ago

      Yes this is what’s weird. There shouldn’t be a reason why some actions didn’t federate.