The server where I did it is not hosting any federated services. There are only websites for end users to view, and no end user should be coming from that range.
I already had hundreds of individual IPs blocked. I don't have time to manage individual IPs like that anymore.
I suspect the hosting provider in this case is already aware that their service is being used to crawl sites that have no interest in being crawled for AI usage.
I think the risk of collateral damage from my blocking is minimal. And I have to weigh this against the very real problems those abusive crawlers are causing for me.
kasperd
npub1jh…xut5y
2026-09-09 19:15:13 UTC
in reply to nevent1q…yfcl
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