Incoherent rant.
I’ve, once again, noticed Amazon and Anthropic absolutely hammering my Lemmy instance to the point of the lemmy-ui container crashing. Multiple IPs all over the US.
So I’ve decided to do some restructuring of how I run things. Ditched Fedora on my VPS in favour of Alpine, just to start with a clean slate. And started looking into different options on how to combat things better.
Behold, Anubis.
“Weighs the soul of incoming HTTP requests to stop AI crawlers”
From how I understand it, it works like a reverse proxy per each service. It took me a while to actually understand how it’s supposed to integrate, but once I figured it out all bot activity instantly stopped. Not a single one got through yet.
My setup is basically just a home server -> tailscale tunnel (not funnel) -> VPS -> caddy reverse proxy, now with anubis integrated.
I’m not really sure why I’m posting this, but I hope at least one other goober trying to find a possible solution to these things finds this post.
Yeah, from what I understand it’s nothing crazy for any regular client, but really messes with the bots.
I don’t know, I’m just so glad and happy it works, it doesn’t mess with federation and it’s barely visible when accessing the sites.
Personally my only real complaint is the lack of wasm. Outside if that it works fairly well.