2026-09-15 16:56 UTC
@5ciFiGirl@indieverse.social @aburka@hachyderm.io @internetarchive@mastodon.archive.org
Dunno how it would work on a technical level, but an archive(friendly bot) scrape with a later retrieval by the (hostile bot) could disguise traffic to bypass bans.
Everything's awful, and difficult to fix without manual intervention. In your case, perhaps they could make an arrangement for a specific IA bot to crawl the site at specified times, but that requires real people to deal with it, and some new procedure to allow a single bot. PITA...
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@5ciFiGirl@indieverse.social 2026-09-15 17:04
@lxskllr@mastodon.world @aburka@hachyderm.io @internetarchive@mastodon.archive.org I don't see that happening. It's a small forum run by my friend on her spare income. She was kind enough to rescue (host) us when our much longer running forum died. Archives are all I have left of the old one. I was only able to get a fraction as that site was dying, so I was determined to save this one incrementally from the beginning. Now it feels like an end of an era. *sigh*