My instance is getting pummeled by scrapers crawling nonsense. Like issue and pull searches with every single variant of label combinations.

Everything’s coming from a shitload of different residential IPs at a very fast cadence.

There’s just not that much content on my instance to warrant this traffic. It could be scraped in a minute or two like this if it were legitimate traffic.

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    22 days ago

    Well, at least it doesn’t seem targeted, then. Did you do anything to remedy the situation?

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      22 days ago

      Why do you need a self hosted instance open to the World? Mine is behind a CloudFlare rule that allows connections only from a list of IPs, like my self hosted WireGuard instance.

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        22 days ago

        Why do you need a self hosted instance open to the World?

        Because I can and I want to?