Elena Rossini ⁂Mar 17

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.

#AIcritic #NoAI

Show threadThom
@_elena They’re doing that on purpose. My hosting provider has already contacted me to say that my site (SearxNG) is causing major traffic issues. Because of this, many small instances may have to be taken offline again. It’s like a digital war...
Mar 17 at 12:26pmWeb
Show threadsam Mar 17
just curious, was your searxng instance listed on searx.space? Do you know if many people were using it? I've just set it up recently and so far no issues, but it's mostly just being used by my wife, son, and myself.
Show threadThomMar 17
@sam At first, there were no problems. I had only been using the instance myself; however, I hadn’t specifically hidden it. Then one day, my hosting provider contacted me to say that an enormous amount of traffic was passing through the instance... So I deactivated it. I later found similar cases online.