Mastodawn

We're slowly rolling out Anubis (https://anubis.techaro.lol/) as a mechanism to reduce the impact of AI/LLM scrapers. Our goal is to have this fully rolled out by the end of the week, barring any unforeseen issues.

As a point of reference: So far, we've rolled it out to our Japan region and about 95% of requests to that region are getting blocked.

As we roll out, if you think you've been impacted by a change we've applied, please reach out to us at https://github.com/hachyderm/community/issues.

Thanks to @cadey for making such a neat tool!

Cheers,

The Hachyderm Infra Crew

Anubis: Web AI Firewall Utility | Anubis

Weigh the soul of incoming HTTP requests to protect your website!

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aburka 🫣Feb 23

@hachyderm can you clarify what it's protecting? Are you talking about the website and community spaces, or is it getting put in front of the Mastodon web interface as well?

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Hachyderm Feb 25

@aburka To start, just the "interactive" bits of Mastodon - mastodon web & media.

Over time, we'll look to put it in front of the API as well, but we need to do more testing/research before we do that.

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aburka 🫣Feb 25

@hachyderm might also want to look into stuff like iocaine which works without client challenges