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Comment on FediDB has stoped crawling until they get robots.txt support

It is not possible to detect bots. Attempting to do so will invariably lead to false positives denying access to your content to what is usually the most at-risk & marginalized folks

Just implement a cache and forget about it. Of read only content is causing you too much load, you’re doing something terribly wrong.

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bhamlin@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
While I agree with you, the quantity of robots has greatly increased of late. While still not as numerous as users, they are hitting every link and wrecking your caches by not focusing on hotspots like humans do.

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- jagged_circle@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  You need a bigger cache. If you dont have enough RAM, host it on a CDN
  
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  - bhamlin@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    Sure thing! Help me pay for it?
    
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Fredthefishlord@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
False positives? Meh who cares … That’s what appeals are for

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- jagged_circle@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  Every time I tried to appeal, I either got no response or met someone who had no idea what I was talking about.
  
  Occasionally a bank fixes the problem for a week. Then its back again.
  
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