From the Siteground Security plugin for WordPress. It's no wonder RSS struggles to maintain traction. (I'm not disabling my feeds, I don't care how "insecure" it might be).
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Jack Baty (jbaty@social.lol)'s status on Saturday, 30-Sep-2023 00:32:52 JST Jack Baty -
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Matthias Pfefferle (pfefferle@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 30-Sep-2023 00:32:51 JST Matthias Pfefferle @jbaty is this real 😳
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Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: (lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me)'s status on Saturday, 30-Sep-2023 00:36:46 JST Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: @jbaty Attacks via RSS/Atom? What the hell.
And the entirety of the web pretty much means that scrapping is an occasional hazard (and quite a feature when it comes to archiving). -
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Matthias Pfefferle (pfefferle@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 02-Oct-2023 15:48:01 JST Matthias Pfefferle -
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Ton Zijlstra (ton@m.tzyl.eu)'s status on Monday, 02-Oct-2023 15:48:03 JST Ton Zijlstra @pfefferle @jbaty At #wordcamp #wordcampNL last year the #yoast plugin guy seriously suggested switching RSS off to reduce server energy use, as part of disabling all 'useless' urls in a site as nobody read RSS anyway (and supporting that w a show of hands, I was 1 of 5 in the room who read the web through RSS) https://www.zylstra.org/blog/2022/09/netherlands-wordcamp-2022-impressions-wcnl/
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