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 Anyone else getting repeated error pages the last couple of days? 1 week ago:
Upgraded to 0.19.15
- Comment on Anyone else getting repeated error pages the last couple of days? 1 week ago:
I’ve seen them both at different times. We’re overdue for another lemmy upgrade… I’ll try and get that done later tonight.
- Comment on RSS Feeds haven't been working in Aussie Zone a while - please fix them. 3 weeks ago:
Probably caught up in the measure I put in place to block AI bots a while back. I’ll look into it after Christmas etc.
- Comment on Nerd update 2025 5 weeks ago:
Thanks :)
- Comment on Nerd update 2025 5 weeks ago:
Haha thank you, appreciated it :)
- Submitted 1 month ago to meta@aussie.zone | 5 comments
- Comment on Turning Point Australia moves into SA 3 months ago:
Report racist posts/comments and users responsible will be dealt with.
- Comment on Turning Point Australia moves into SA 3 months ago:
I know of multiple people who have reported this user previously, so what would my report achieve?
Mod/admin actions are typically per comment/post, except for the most egregious issues which can result in actions taken against user accounts. - Comment on Turning Point Australia moves into SA 3 months ago:
If a comment/post breaks the community or instance rules, report it and move on.
Posting this in unrelated threads where no rules have been broken can be construed as spam and/or harassment. Please do not do it.
- Comment on I feel like there's been a sudden influx on new active aussie.zone users. Coincidence, or did something happen? 3 months ago:
I’m travelling for work again… and will be again quite a bit in the near future. When I’m home and have some time, I’ll answer this properly.
Short version: I’m paying the bulk of costs out of my own pocket at the moment. The bulk of once off donations were used up a few months back. A few monthly supporters offset it a little. I’ll figure out the numbers and share when I can.
- Comment on More AZ issues 19/8/25 4 months 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 4 months 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 4 months ago:
Thanks, that confirms some of the changes I’ve made are working.
- Comment on More AZ issues 19/8/25 4 months ago:
Thanks for posting, good to confirm it’s working as expected.
- Comment on More AZ issues 19/8/25 4 months 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 4 months 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 4 months 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 4 months ago:
How is everyone finding AZ performance for the last hour or so?
- Comment on More AZ issues 19/8/25 4 months 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 4 months ago:
Yes, amongst other things.
- Submitted 4 months ago to meta@aussie.zone | 21 comments
- Comment on AZ issues 16/8/25 4 months 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 5 months ago:
Generic, non-lemmy traffic.
- Submitted 5 months ago to meta@aussie.zone | 7 comments
- Comment on We are seeing some vote manipulation 7 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 7 months ago:
Another web scraping bot blocked.
- Comment on More DDOS(?) traffic 7 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 7 months ago:
Not from Australia.
- Comment on More DDOS(?) traffic 7 months ago:
IP? No. Country, ASN and user agent? Yes. Which now will receive a captcha.
- Submitted 7 months ago to meta@aussie.zone | 14 comments
