freamon@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Just come across this myself.
Long-running fediverse instances will likely have old copies of established aussie.zone actors, but federation will be broke for newer instances and/or newer actors.
Verifiable by doing something like:
WORKS: curl --header 'accept: application/activity+json' https://reddthat.com/u/lodion DOESN'T WORK: curl --header 'accept: application/activity+json' https://aussie.zone/u/lodion
I chose reddthat.com because it seems like it has similar protection, but allows for AP requests. (other instances use non-CF solutions, but I imagine they’ve had to make similar tweaks).
It’s been a couple of days, so it might be worth some pings:
@admin@aussie.zone
@lodion@aussie.zone
lodion@aussie.zone 3 days ago
Thanks for the ping. Without getting into details, this is a security measure to block AI bots that were scraping aussie.zone and effectively DDoSing us.
If there are specific apps/platforms that are incorrectly being caught in this, I can allow them on a case by case basis.