Can we put shitjustworks behind a captcha?

Submitted ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨Quacksalber@sh.itjust.works⁩ to ⁨main@sh.itjust.works⁩

For me at least, for months now, this instance is unavailable for multiple hours a day. Given the recent posts about the lemmy eco system being on a slight downwards trend, I don’t think this additional load is caused by more users using this instance. Rather, I think that AI scrapers are using this instance to scrape lemmy. If I am correct, though only someone with access to the logs can check, I’d like to kindly ask for some sort of protection from AI scrapers. Both because I like being able to actually browse the instance and because I hate AI companies.

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smuuthbrane@sh.itjust.works ⁨38⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago
Will that fix all the timeout issues sh.itjust.works has had?

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sbv@sh.itjust.works ⁨33⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago
I’ve noticed the slowness too. It’s lousy, because this is the instance I recommend to normies.

But picking a solution without knowing the problem is a bit premature.

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partial_accumen@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Some Lemmy instances use Cloudflare for protection. I know that sopuli.xyz uses Anubis instead. Both these approaches would offer scraper protection without a captcha which would certainly be a high friction event for human users. Does shitjustworks use something like this?

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WolfLink@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
I use an app for my Lemmy browsing and I’d really like that to not break :/

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