I believe federation issues between AZ and quokk.au are due to the custom version of piefed they’re running. Not that there are issues with it, but that it isn’t being allowed by the whitelisting I’ve applied to restrict AI scraper bots.

I’ve made some changes to the whitelisting today, specifically for quokk.au… let me know if it helps.

I’m not sure… but it looks like this resolved after I upgraded AZ to 0.19.20:

Looks like outbound federation from AZ to LW is having issues for the last few days:

Looks like we had similar issues with other instances at the same start time, but they recovered:

I’ll look into this more over the weekend if I get the time.

In this instance, Nath is wrong. He’s been doing the heavy lifting for a long time, and I’m sure he knows it.

To be honest, I don’t have time to give AZ the attention it really needs. And at some point I’ll have had enough bankrolling most of it, and want to move on not worrying about it.

I’m not entirely sure how best to manage things when that day arrives. I’m open to ideas.

Probably caught up in restrictions I applied to protect AZ from AI bots scraping and breaking the site. Will take a look.

In future best to not post referral links, or at least disclose this in your commentary.

Recent issues appear to be AI bots scraping lemmy content, posing as legitimate user traffic.

The difference between this and a regular DDoS is the intent behind it. I don’t believe the traffic we’re seeing is intended to be malicious as with a DDoS, but due to the incompetence of those behind the scraping… it effectively is a DDoS.

Cloudflare’s security features are serving us very well:

The red line shows the blocks put in place stopping a recent surge in hits. If the blocks weren’t in place, AZ would likely be almost entirely offline.

It works without Internet too…

Thanks, that confirms some of the changes I’ve made are working.

Thanks for posting, good to confirm it’s working as expected.

I’ve made further changes… what app do you usually use? Worth trying again now, please let me know how it goes.

I’m still working to relax the restrictions… unfortunately it’s very difficult to differentiate legitimate users traffic from the bots.

Since you guys are so active… how has the site felt for the last hour or so? Any issues?

How is everyone finding AZ performance for the last hour or so?

I’ve expanded the cloudflare challenges to all non Australian requests. This has made a massive impact… I’ll look at ways to relax this tonight.

For now users outside Australia will receive a cloudflare challenge in their browser. Lemmy apps will likely not function.

Yes, amongst other things.

And more stuff blocked today. Lemmy seems to be drawing more and more attention from various misbehaved bots/scrapers etc.

Generic, non-lemmy traffic.

I’ve added jenny.nya.pub, fun.with.kyun.li, and red.computersforpeace.net to our instance blocklist.