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Tired of your instance getting pounded by bots and scrapers? Solved. (infosec.pub)

submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by rimu@piefed.social to c/piefed_meta@piefed.social

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Instances that are not trying to attract a new audience might want to turn on the new Private Instance setting, which makes everything private. The home page, posts, communities, etc will all require a login to view. Bots and scrapers won't be able to get anything useful from your instance and will stop trying.

Also if a single-user instance is subscribed to mostly NSFW communities, maybe they don't want everyone to be able to see which communities are listed at /communities.

Or it could be used temporarily when a biiig flood of scrapers turn up, then turn it back off when they go away.

Edit: Federation is unaffected by this. For logged-in users everything continues as before.

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[–] admiralpatrick@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Nice!

Does it still federate with that enabled? Last I checked, enabling private instance in Lemmy also disabled federation.

[–] abff08f4813c@j4vcdedmiokf56h3ho4t62mlku.srv.us 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I had coded up something similar (but less configurable) on my own single-user pyfedi instance. But this is really nice. In particular it's surprising that we can now do something that lemmy can't (yet).

I wonder what's next on the radar. Implementing https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/5578 maybe? (Thought I wouldn't be surprised if this was also already implemented...)

[–] rimu@piefed.social 1 points 2 months ago

Yes, that's done. When you block an instance it is the equivalent of a user-level defederation.

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