It looks like whoever is behind this has finally come for one of my sites. Manually blocking datacenter IPs has worked for a while, but it seems like the traffic is now coming either from residential IPs, or the IPs are just getting spoofed.
Real conundrum. I didn't want to have to set up Cloudflare for the site, and I have to wonder how good they are at catching this anyway, but it might just come to that.
Anyone else has been dealing with this?
#indieweb #PersonalWebsite #devops #bots #spam #AICrawlers
Stefan Bohacek
npub1kq…57wgd
2026-06-25 13:44:51 UTC
in reply to nevent1q…9zlh
Author Public Key
npub1kqcamrlyz7tvp25x3cvtwz2t5xqvd96we3q5enl62flf08lk4j2qa57wgdSeen on
wss://relay.momostr.pinkPublished at
2026-06-25 13:44:51 UTCEvent JSON
{
"id": "05abe9247d83d54753b0b670b00c52b21d90c4944d8d92398975c610a003758f",
"pubkey": "b031dd8fe41796c0aa868e18b7094ba180c6974ecc414ccffa527e979ff6ac94",
"created_at": 1782395091,
"kind": 1,
"tags": [
[
"t",
"spam"
],
[
"p",
"b031dd8fe41796c0aa868e18b7094ba180c6974ecc414ccffa527e979ff6ac94"
],
[
"proxy",
"https://stefanbohacek.online/@stefan/116811044743506751",
"web"
],
[
"t",
"personalwebsite"
],
[
"t",
"indieweb"
],
[
"e",
"f7c0c24b7207fc930c760506186982b427bb9aa0790ef138ea14efe073ba513e",
"",
"root",
"b031dd8fe41796c0aa868e18b7094ba180c6974ecc414ccffa527e979ff6ac94"
],
[
"t",
"devops"
],
[
"t",
"aicrawlers"
],
[
"t",
"bots"
],
[
"proxy",
"https://stefanbohacek.online/users/stefan/statuses/116811044743506751",
"activitypub"
],
[
"L",
"pink.momostr"
],
[
"l",
"pink.momostr.activitypub:https://stefanbohacek.online/users/stefan/statuses/116811044743506751",
"pink.momostr"
],
[
"-"
]
],
"content": "It looks like whoever is behind this has finally come for one of my sites. Manually blocking datacenter IPs has worked for a while, but it seems like the traffic is now coming either from residential IPs, or the IPs are just getting spoofed.\n\nReal conundrum. I didn't want to have to set up Cloudflare for the site, and I have to wonder how good they are at catching this anyway, but it might just come to that.\n\nAnyone else has been dealing with this?\n\n#indieweb #PersonalWebsite #devops #bots #spam #AICrawlers",
"sig": "e3ecc12a0049ba52e4a9237715cc050cf0bcc4e5e654bfa16bc199b6b68c65a6048c7338abe361be9ce49969041791f3717aca36cc8acc048a2f1566020821df"
}