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Are there any Lemmy servers facing AI scraping invasion? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 5 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Almost every website and services are getting scraped at alarming rate, are Lemmy servers facing this issue?

Please share mitigations you've seen applied to this.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago

The point (as I see it) is not so much to stop scraping as it is to prevent bots from effectively DDOS-ing web services. As others have said ActivityPub content is public and there are ways to get it without slamming instances with scraper bots.