@petrescatraian I noticed that.
will correct it!
by the way, you are the most advanced user;)
#nobot

@quoteme you're welcome btw, when using the #removetags option it looks like the # symbol before the word is staying. You might wanna look into it

@Dianora or maybe the damn bots do not respect #nobot. Many don't.

@TOrynski Mniej więcej ekwiwalent hashtagów typu #NoBot wstawianych do bio na Mastodonie

@MalthusJohn we allow bots on mas.to, but have very specific rules about how they can operate:

“All automated (bot) accounts must enable the bot flag in their account preferences, respect #nobot markers, and post as unlisted unless making less than one post per hour.”

So they’re easy to block and won’t flood your local timeline.

I’d say our moderation team is great, but, then, I’d be biased.

Seriously, though. I think we do a pretty good job, and we’d love to have you.

So... not a topic getting much interest, let me decide by myself.

Not a DoS as requests are coming every other second... not blocked by fail2ban as IP's are numerous and changing... not causing any trouble, I don't see what they can achieve by doing this as requests seem legitimate and reading random posts... but clearly not human nor social interactions, so undesirable. Maybe scraping content for AI training?

I will block the offending IP's this evening. This should not affect our other Singaporean users, who, let's be honest, are (understandably) not very many. Nor will it affect federation as user agent is voluntarily misleading.

I encourage other administrators to monitor this kind of case and to take action if necessary. Let's try and avoid scraping bots when we can.

@vint
Во-первых, что такое тег #nobot
Во-вторых, ты сам ввел домен и нажал кнопку авторизации.
В-третьих, эти «сервисы» работают на уровне жабоскрипта твоего браузера.

Что конкретно ты не одобряешь?..

@johan Оба этих сервиса полезли мою аватарку тырить, несмотря на тег #nobot в моём описании профиля. Не одобряю.

As you can see from https://cathode.church/fedi-scraper-counter.html they don't respect the #NoBot #NoAI etc. Tags. And in my experience, especially online, people are rarely searching in good faith, they want someone to pick at, but the bigger issue is the above violates consent, so if I have the #NoBot tec tags on my profile, everyone of those would scrape my content anyway. The other half of this is refusing to comprehend that there are a large number of people that don't want to be other's content and want to post among their federated circle and value organic, human, growth over someone just randomly finding them. While this isn't fully me, for example, anyone can see me, but I don't wanna interact with everybody, which is why I don't have #WebMentions on my blog for example. In truth, I don't want any data of theirs on my website, period, and this includes social media replies. I'd like a one way web mention instead, where they know I linked them but interaction is on my terms not theirs, but going back to the above, the above gives examples where consent is violated. Not everyone is worth interacting with online. @miturian