Mastodawn

Yesterday my VPS set off a warning, as it was hit by a huge spike in incoming traffic, peaking at 55GB at 2:15pm and lasting for an hour.

Upon investigating, it turns out it was my PeerTube instance that was targeted.

Where did the traffic come from?

meta-externalagent (aka Meta's web crawler which is used to grab content to train its AI system).

I feel a little bit violated thinking my Fediverse promo video was grabbed by it, sigh.

@_elena ugh. That’s just so aggravating. I have read several people mention that the meta bot is being aggressive and crashing sites.

That they can so blatantly steal data is just…

Really hope that the eu is going to do something about their theft.