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.

    • jerry@infosec.pubOPMEnglish
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      5 months ago

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

        • jerry@infosec.pubOPMEnglish
          2·
          5 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…

  • mranderson17@infosec.pub
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    22 days 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.

    • jerry@infosec.pubOPMEnglish
      1·
      22 days 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

      • mranderson17@infosec.pub
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        22 days 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!