Anonymous access to infosec.pub is disabled temporarily

6 months ago by jerry to c/infosecpub

Scrapers are getting so bad that the lemmy containers are falling over, so I've disabled anonymous access to allow legit users to continue using the service. I will work on improving filtering so I can reenable anonymous access. Apologies for the inconvenience.

barkingspiders 13 points 6 months ago

We appreciate you Jerry 🙏

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jerry 8 points 6 months ago

Thank you. I am trying hard to keep this place humming along.

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glowie 2 points 6 months ago

This.

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mvilain 2 points 6 months ago

Yep. Worth every nickel (aren't pennies any more) I stuff in his tip jar every month. THANKS JERRY.

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lazynooblet 5 points 6 months ago

How do you disable anonymous access? Something I've wanted to do for a while

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jerry 6 points 6 months ago

Go to the site configuration page in the admin section, then look for the checkbox labelled "private instance".

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lazynooblet 4 points 6 months ago

Interesting. I've seen that option but this GitHub post made me think it would do more than what I wanted. https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3148

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jerry 2 points 6 months ago

I think the original implementation of that setting disabled public access AND disabled federation, however it appears the ability to disable federation was subsequently split into a different setting. (I have private mode turned on and we are still communicating across instances, so I know federation is still working). I am not sure that is what you were referring to, though...

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mranderson17 1 point a month ago

Just curious, is this what is preventing our communities from being shown on things like lemmyverse.net?

for example, searching for cybersecurity communities there doesn't show ours, at least for me.

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jerry 1 point a month ago

I think it is because I disabled anonymous access due to the AI scrapers continuously causing the instance to crash. I just reenabled anonymous access which should allow it to be indexed by those sites, but it may cause some instability

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mranderson17 1 point a month ago

Thanks for the reply. It really sucks that our options seem to be break discoverability, or get scraped to death...

Anyway please do whatever you think is best, we trust you! I was mostly just curious if this was maybe why. As always thanks for your work maintaining this instance!

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hamid 1 point 5 months ago

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jerry 1 point 4 months ago

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