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.

  • Captain Beyond@linkage.ds8.zone
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    1 day 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.