2026-09-30 21:08 UTC
Very much inspired by
https://mastodon.social/@mastohost/117361644335860123
Thank you!
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@colo_lee@mstdn.social 2026-09-30 21:38
@stux@mstdn.social not running any of these services, I hadn't thought about that aspect of the problem with AI scraping. In retrospect, it seems obvious. Turning off unauthenticated access seems like a no brainer...
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@piepants@famichiki.jp 2026-09-30 21:37
@stux@mstdn.social Thanks for the tip! I've been blocking the crawlers at the CDN level (they use Chrome as the user agent, with older versions between 100 and 150 - any "user" on those versions gets forced into a bot challenge) This helped, but I've disabled public timelines as well. I've left the local timelines enabled to help potential new users get a feel for the server before they sign up.