Comment on More AZ issues 19/8/25

maniacalmanicmania@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• Nath@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Possibly. It’d be a terrible way to get that data if so. You could just spin up a Lemmy instance and federate with all of Lemmy far easier than trying to scrape all the web front-ends. Also, we try to fly under the radar from the Internet a bit. We opt out of Google searches, Amazon, Apple and GPTBot for example.

  While our data is all human-generated (attractive), we’re a pretty small userbase. There are shinier web sites to scrape than us.

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  • Gorgritch_umie_killa@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Whats the difference between this event and a DDoS event?

    I was able to access AZ on the browser during the downtime period, i’d assume that wouldn’t be the case with a DDoS?

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    • lodion@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Recent issues appear to be AI bots scraping lemmy content, posing as legitimate user traffic.

      The difference between this and a regular DDoS is the intent behind it. I don’t believe the traffic we’re seeing is intended to be malicious as with a DDoS, but due to the incompetence of those behind the scraping… it effectively is a DDoS.

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