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!

  • BurgerBaron@quokk.auEnglish
    3·
    6 days ago

    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

      • BurgerBaron@quokk.auEnglish
        2·
        5 days ago

        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.