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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨More AZ issues 19/8/25⁩ ⁨⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨More AZ issues 19/8/25⁩ ⁨⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Cloudflare’s security features are serving us very well:
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  The red line shows the blocks put in place stopping a recent surge in hits. If the blocks weren’t in place, AZ would likely be almost entirely offline.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Age verification fun⁩ ⁨⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  It works without Internet too…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨More AZ issues 19/8/25⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks, that confirms some of the changes I’ve made are working.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨More AZ issues 19/8/25⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks for posting, good to confirm it’s working as expected.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨More AZ issues 19/8/25⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve made further changes… what app do you usually use? Worth trying again now, please let me know how it goes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨More AZ issues 19/8/25⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m still working to relax the restrictions… unfortunately it’s very difficult to differentiate legitimate users traffic from the bots.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨More AZ issues 19/8/25⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  How is everyone finding AZ performance for the last hour or so?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨More AZ issues 19/8/25⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve expanded the cloudflare challenges to all non Australian requests. This has made a massive impact… I’ll look at ways to relax this tonight.

  For now users outside Australia will receive a cloudflare challenge in their browser. Lemmy apps will likely not function.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨More AZ issues 19/8/25⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, amongst other things.

• More AZ issues 19/8/25
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AZ issues 16/8/25⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  And more stuff blocked today. Lemmy seems to be drawing more and more attention from various misbehaved bots/scrapers etc.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AZ issues 16/8/25⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Generic, non-lemmy traffic.

• AZ issues 16/8/25
  Submitted ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩ to ⁨meta@aussie.zone⁩ | ⁨7⁩ ⁨comments⁩
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We are seeing some vote manipulation⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve added jenny.nya.pub, fun.with.kyun.li, and red.computersforpeace.net to our instance blocklist.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨9,500 O-type blood donors urged to donate immediately⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You’ve reminded me I should donate again, its been a while… though one small correction, O- is not the most common at all. It makes up under ~10% of the population as a rule: https://www.redcrossblood.org/donate-blood/blood-types.html

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨More DDOS(?) traffic⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Another web scraping bot blocked.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨More DDOS(?) traffic⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  So this is still going on now. I’ve expanded the block to catch more of the dodgy traffic.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨More DDOS(?) traffic⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Not from Australia.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨More DDOS(?) traffic⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  IP? No. Country, ASN and user agent? Yes. Which now will receive a captcha.

• More DDOS(?) traffic
  Submitted ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩ to ⁨meta@aussie.zone⁩ | ⁨14⁩ ⁨comments⁩
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Error when subscribing to a community on another server⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Sorry, what do you mean by “entered aussie.zone at the prompt”? At a guess you’ve browsed direct to lemmy.ml and clicked subscribe there, instead you should access that community via the aussie.zone site here: aussie.zone/c/lemmy@lemmy.ml

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LW delay is growing again⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  We’ve now caught up with LW, should stay in sync barring any issues or massive growth in activities from LW:

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We are back in sync with lemmy.world!⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ha just finished watching a movie and was going to post this, you beat me :)
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LW delay is growing again⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Still on track to be caught up late tomorrow :)

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LW delay is growing again⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  At the rate we’re catching up, I think we’ll be all caught up Saturday some time:
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Go Private?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s a simple tick box in the admin settings interface. Trivially easy to enable, and presumably disable. Doesn’t appear to even require a service restart.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Go Private?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not so much about cost, but impact on user experience when the server is busy serving non-logged in users.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Go Private?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not usually a concern, but having this in place would have mitigated the recent “attacks” we experienced without me having to do anything.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Go Private?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not talking about making this community private. Its valuable as is.

  0.19.11 adds the ability for an instance to not display content to non-logged in users. Non-AZ users would retain access to all AZ homed communities etc.