Howdy, my Lemming fellas! Maya here!
I wanted to know how bad the current bot traffic situation on Lemmy currently is and if there’s anything we could do.
I have previously encountered RNSAFFN, who is the one maintaining Poison Fountain, but I wanted to know your views too.
Thanks in advance!
At this point I think it is safe to assume that everything publicly accessible is being scraped regularly.
Well yes, but we still have to worry about bot traffic being too overwhelming for our servers.
If you look at your own instance’s meta community, TheDude recently posted a breakdown of 2025 and server costs. Including bot scraping and their first try at a solution. I wouldn’t say the bots were* breaking the bank but certainly were inflating costs somewhat.
https://sh.itjust.works/post/64240582
It seems the issue’s mostly hardware.
Yeah, especially since they want to upgrade not just maintain. I look upon my own NAS and wonder if I can even afford to maintain it if I had multi drive failure, never mind an actual storage capacity upgrade.
Indeed, but I think only server admins have access to data on this, unless I’m missing something.
Yeah, I got nothing. Don’t know if the agressive scraping is affecting Lemmy. There has a been increase in bot traffic on many sites.