I've been testing scraper blocking strategies on different servers -- a couple personal servers, a curriculum website, and an API dev server for teaching.

I will write some notes/tutorial of what I've learned soon... I'm too busy today, sorry

But a quick defense that works pretty well in our cases is to block parasites from @JulianOliver's Science is Poetry project, plus heavy rate limiting on #GAYINT's naughty list

https://mastodon.social/@JulianOliver/116391284280771352