Shadow, 23 days ago As someone with experience hosting high traffic sites, it’s probably both. Roughly 40% of the traffic I see to lemmy.ca is bots. They’re also trying to block any people scraping for AI. There’s going to be numerous reasons behind this. I know Disney+ also blocks hosting provider space. I’ve had users complain since our office / VPN are routed through our DC.
As someone with experience hosting high traffic sites, it’s probably both. Roughly 40% of the traffic I see to lemmy.ca is bots.
They’re also trying to block any people scraping for AI. There’s going to be numerous reasons behind this.
I know Disney+ also blocks hosting provider space. I’ve had users complain since our office / VPN are routed through our DC.