@hitstun connections to mbin are super heavy weight, which is fine if it were legit people browsing, but the AI scrapers endlessly hammering the site with hundreds or thousands of requests per minute ends up taking the whole site down. I’ll try opening it up again and see what happens and try to block as many crawlers as I can, but it’s been hundreds of net blocks in the past interspersed with other actual fediverse instances. Let’s see what happens.

@urda @blenderdumbass :blobheartcat:

@rglullis I think the donation model is working ok at this scale, but I don’t believe it will scale up to the hypothetical future we were discussing on the show where the fediverse became the social media platform for the masses. There are somewhere around 1 to 2 million active fediverse users, depending on how you count. If that were 100x or 1000x larger, we would simply crumble - I don’t think the general architecture scales that well (think of all the duplicate storage that we end up paying for across various instance) and generally, people who use social media are far less concerned with the core value propositions of the fediverse, like privacy and whatnot. I know that’s hard to accept, but we’re here because that’s how we think. So no, I don’t think we will have a future where a 500,000,000 active user fediverse can be operated off of donations from members. I also very much doubt that people would pay a fee to be here when corporate social media alternatives are “free” to them

@rglullis @blenderdumbass I have donations from members that cover the costs.

@Chozo @Novamdomum can you DM me your IP address? The site has been under a heavy ddos by scrapers and I think my script to identify those scrapers got a little carried away.

@Fitik@fedia.io I removed the block. I’ve been having some luck in reducing the server load today with the help of the mbin team.

@Fitik@fedia.io messages to/from threads has been causing some major problems with the message processing queues on fedia.io. To keep the instance running, I had to block it until I can sort out why.

@ChickenPwny@infosec.exchange is everything slow in the desert, or just us?

@aagot@infosec.exchange @The_Asshat@infosec.exchange I found and fixed a problem based on feedback from the survey - so quite likely it is fixed because of that

@betaphish@infosec.exchange when is the last time that happened? I found/fixed a dns issue where the ipv6 record for the streaming server was missing

@betaphish@infosec.exchange can you tell me a bit about your setup? Are you accessing via a VPN? via Tor? using a brower? which one? etc

@royal@theres.life I was guessing dialup or satellite or something like that, but can’t discount some other issue

@fbarton@infosec.exchange please tell me what you see when you look at this image…

@fbarton@infosec.exchange I could use one of those too :)

@fitik@kitty.social thank you. I am looking into it now