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If your concern is load, disabling anonymous access (sadly), which a lot of instances have been doing. Probably using stuff like Cloudflare and Anubis.
If your concern is not letting scrapers have access to your posts/comments at all, that isn't going to happen short of a massive shift away from a publicly-accessible environment. You're gonna be stuck with private, small forums if you want that; search engines won't index it, and you'll have small userbases. On the Threadiverse, if someone wants to harvest your comment and post text, all they have to do is set up an instance, federate, and subscribe to every community on every instance. They don't need to scrape at all. The only reason that bots are scraping at all is because it isn't worth the effort, at the current scale of the Threadiverse, to bother writing special-case code for the Threadiverse to obtain text via the federated instance route.
Load is what really sucks about scraping IMO, and I wonder if the fediverse's design makes it more or less susceptible to load precisely because the scrapers can just set up their own instances and get all data through there by federation. Time will tell, I suppose.