lodion
@lodion@aussie.zone
I also have backup accounts on these instances:
beehaw.org/u/lodion
sh.itjust.works/u/lodion
lemmy.world/u/lodion
lemm.ee/u/lodion
reddthat.com/u/lodion
- Comment on More AZ issues 19/8/25 1 week ago:
Recent issues appear to be AI bots scraping lemmy content, posing as legitimate user traffic.
The difference between this and a regular DDoS is the intent behind it. I don’t believe the traffic we’re seeing is intended to be malicious as with a DDoS, but due to the incompetence of those behind the scraping… it effectively is a DDoS.
- Comment on More AZ issues 19/8/25 1 week ago:
Cloudflare’s security features are serving us very well:
ImageThe red line shows the blocks put in place stopping a recent surge in hits. If the blocks weren’t in place, AZ would likely be almost entirely offline.
- Comment on More AZ issues 19/8/25 1 week ago:
Thanks, that confirms some of the changes I’ve made are working.
- Comment on More AZ issues 19/8/25 1 week ago:
Thanks for posting, good to confirm it’s working as expected.
- Comment on More AZ issues 19/8/25 1 week ago:
I’ve made further changes… what app do you usually use? Worth trying again now, please let me know how it goes.
- Comment on More AZ issues 19/8/25 1 week ago:
I’m still working to relax the restrictions… unfortunately it’s very difficult to differentiate legitimate users traffic from the bots.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🤖 Tuesday 19 August 2025 1 week ago:
Since you guys are so active… how has the site felt for the last hour or so? Any issues?
- Comment on More AZ issues 19/8/25 1 week ago:
How is everyone finding AZ performance for the last hour or so?
- Comment on More AZ issues 19/8/25 1 week ago:
I’ve expanded the cloudflare challenges to all non Australian requests. This has made a massive impact… I’ll look at ways to relax this tonight.
For now users outside Australia will receive a cloudflare challenge in their browser. Lemmy apps will likely not function.
- Comment on More AZ issues 19/8/25 1 week ago:
Yes, amongst other things.
- Submitted 1 week ago to meta@aussie.zone | 21 comments
- Comment on AZ issues 16/8/25 1 week ago:
And more stuff blocked today. Lemmy seems to be drawing more and more attention from various misbehaved bots/scrapers etc.
- Comment on AZ issues 16/8/25 1 week ago:
Generic, non-lemmy traffic.
- Submitted 1 week ago to meta@aussie.zone | 7 comments
- Comment on We are seeing some vote manipulation 2 months ago:
I’ve added jenny.nya.pub, fun.with.kyun.li, and red.computersforpeace.net to our instance blocklist.
- Comment on More DDOS(?) traffic 2 months ago:
Another web scraping bot blocked.
- Comment on More DDOS(?) traffic 3 months ago:
So this is still going on now. I’ve expanded the block to catch more of the dodgy traffic.
- Comment on More DDOS(?) traffic 3 months ago:
Not from Australia.
- Comment on More DDOS(?) traffic 3 months ago:
IP? No. Country, ASN and user agent? Yes. Which now will receive a captcha.
- Submitted 3 months ago to meta@aussie.zone | 14 comments
- Comment on Greens’ election hubris – how the minor party lost its way and now its leader 3 months ago:
Yes, and that has put a smile on my face.
- Comment on Welcome to Country booed by neo-Nazis at Melbourne Dawn Service 3 months ago:
Saying this is not racist. It’s not “neo-Nazi” views. You claim it is as an excuse to be intolerant towards those people. No matter how you try to sugar coat it, you are being intolerant.
Except these are views held by self identitifed neo-nazis. Just because non-nazis also hold that view, doesn’t change they fact they are neo-nazi views.
There will be no tolerance of nazis or their offensive beliefs here. To that end I’ve revoked your mod role. Further antagonism will result in a ban. I’m not interested in discussing this. If you continue to trolling while trying to give the impression of good faith discussion, you’ll be banned.
- Comment on Error when subscribing to a community on another server 4 months ago:
Sorry, what do you mean by “entered aussie.zone at the prompt”? At a guess you’ve browsed direct to lemmy.ml and clicked subscribe there, instead you should access that community via the aussie.zone site here: aussie.zone/c/lemmy@lemmy.ml
- Comment on LW delay is growing again 4 months ago:
We’ve now caught up with LW, should stay in sync barring any issues or massive growth in activities from LW:
- Comment on We are back in sync with lemmy.world! 4 months ago:
Ha just finished watching a movie and was going to post this, you beat me :)
Image - Comment on LW delay is growing again 4 months ago:
Still on track to be caught up late tomorrow :)
- Comment on LW delay is growing again 4 months ago:
At the rate we’re catching up, I think we’ll be all caught up Saturday some time:
Image - Comment on Go Private? 4 months ago:
It’s a simple tick box in the admin settings interface. Trivially easy to enable, and presumably disable. Doesn’t appear to even require a service restart.
- Comment on Go Private? 4 months ago:
It’s not so much about cost, but impact on user experience when the server is busy serving non-logged in users.
- Comment on Go Private? 4 months ago:
It’s not usually a concern, but having this in place would have mitigated the recent “attacks” we experienced without me having to do anything.
