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

submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 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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[–] rosahaj@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I really need to make a piefed instance one of these days. Just not so sure I have the hosting experience necessary.

[–] rosahaj@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Or in other words, I keep seeing you come out with fantastic features, and can hardly contain myself from biting the bullet and going all in, excellent work. :)

[–] rimu@piefed.social 3 points 3 months ago

Good to hear that, cheers 👍