Good morning everyone. Just a quick heads up that I've banned a good chunk of IP space in China due to abusive traffic.
I've tried to restrict this where possible to datacenter blocks from Huawei, Tencent, and Alibaba, but China Telecom / Mobile were also heavy sources of suspicious traffic. I doubt we have many (if any) users in China, but if you are affected please let me know.
This has been ongoing for a while and I ignored it initially since the traffic levels were low, but it wasn't anymore.
The ban has very visibly cut our traffic levels:
Has this affected posts at all? The Top 6 hour is suspiciously empty right now for me.
Hmm, I don't think my China blocks did, but I did also turn on Cloudflare's AI bot protection which looks like it did. I've turned that back off now. Sorry about that, thanks for pointing it out!
Unfortunately stats on https://grafana.lem.rocks/d/bdid38k9p0t1cf/federation-health-single-instance-overview?orgId=1&var-instance=lemmy.ca&var-remote_instance=lemmy.world seem to be broken for the past few days.
I suddenly see way more posts! Thanks!
Thanks, and happy I could help. That's a pretty big traffic load reduction too, so good job there.