@anja

Hier mittels den Anweisungen z.B.

https://docs.joinmastodon.org/user/moderating/

Blocken, muten oder Instanzen blocken ist auch manchmal zu empfehlen, je nachdem. Hmm, was gibt es noch… 🤔 Es gibt bestimmt noch ein paar Sachen. Nicht auf alle Links klicken, die man bekommt. Aufpassen auf Tracking-URLs etc. Auch können Hashtags im Profil helfen, z.B. #nobots, #nonsfw etc. Man kann auch darauf hinweisen, dass man mit leeren Profilen nichts zu tun haben will.(1/2)

@hiker @tux

So... not a topic getting much interest, let me decide by myself.

Not a DoS as requests are coming every other second... not blocked by fail2ban as IP's are numerous and changing... not causing any trouble, I don't see what they can achieve by doing this as requests seem legitimate and reading random posts... but clearly not human nor social interactions, so undesirable. Maybe scraping content for AI training?

I will block the offending IP's this evening. This should not affect our other Singaporean users, who, let's be honest, are (understandably) not very many. Nor will it affect federation as user agent is voluntarily misleading.

I encourage other administrators to monitor this kind of case and to take action if necessary. Let's try and avoid scraping bots when we can.

#admin #lemmy #MastodonAdmin #mastoadmin #nobot #nobots