<![CDATA[HEY MASTODON SERVER/INSTANCE ADMINS:]]>HEY MASTODON SERVER/INSTANCE ADMINS:

ISSUE:
I found that my Masto instance was being completely *hammered* with bot crawlers from Meta, Apple and others.

My server is *just me* at the moment so not only is this kind of activity uncalled for, but many requests are for politically sensitive hashtags, users, etc..

SOLUTION:
Using fail2ban, I customized the 'nginx-badbots' filter (https://gist.github.com/dale3h/660fe549df8232d1902f338e6d3b39ed) to also include 'meta-externalagent' and 'applebot'.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/topic/f94827e1-a8fc-463e-8a14-ab4ef48fc0e4/hey-mastodon-server-instance-adminsRSS for NodeFri, 15 May 2026 04:14:44 GMTWed, 22 Apr 2026 17:40:51 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to HEY MASTODON SERVER/INSTANCE ADMINS: on Wed, 22 Apr 2026 17:46:44 GMT]]>@jordan On my host plan I cannot implement Fail2Ban (really wish I could, this is the way to go.) But these two cases are also fairly easy to stop in htaccess.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://defcon.social/users/retech/statuses/116449607960395636https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://defcon.social/users/retech/statuses/116449607960395636Wed, 22 Apr 2026 17:46:44 GMT