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 I was forced to take down my SearXNG instance because of these stupid bots.

@ml @_elena when I setup my own instance I also setup anubis and all IPs that fail that get added to firewall drop list for 90 days