Lemmy (@lemmy@botsin.space)
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I think it’s just pulling from the frontpage?

  • AgreeableLandscape@lemmy.ml
    OP
    4·
    4 years ago

    If you have a hashtag in your title, the bot’s post will be parsed by Mastodon as having used that hashtag. I’m not sure how I feel about this since most hashtags in post titles are ironic or sarcastic.

      • AgreeableLandscape@lemmy.ml
        OP
        2·
        4 years ago

        You can always just blacklist them from Nginx (or whatever public facing server you use) if they start posing a real problem. Especially bots from a company, since they’re usually from their corporate IP range, so if you can track that down, then you should be good.

        • ufra@lemmy.ml
          2·
          4 years ago

          I have fail2ban setup pretty tight and it does a good job on bad bots. I’m talking more about hrefs bot, bing, goggle, etc who are indexing my instance. They will respect the file and optimistically a mirror bot with a public site should too. Without robots configured you don’t have as good of a case against their unwanted retrieval.