It seems like some FOSS websites started using a Proof of Work CAPTCHA called [Anubis](https://anubis.techaro.lol/) because they've been getting hit by crawlers to gather data for LLMs. It seems like it helps.
It does **not** stop them, but it does make it more expensive and slower for the attacker. At the moment, I haven't seen any instance having this problem, but it most likely will be a problem someday and being praped for it is definitely not a bad thing.
Lemmy could benefit from this by maybe placing some invisible or auto PoW CAPTCHAs when doing some action like commenting, posting, etc.
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