@waifu @phnt @tyil

> what if I block every user agent that isn't a browser?

archive.is uses HeadlessChrome, pretends to be a browser by its UA, and uses an army of US residential proxies. Try to stop them.

> I only want connections by users not bots

You can't really worry too much about it. Plus you get weird fuckers like me and I pretty reliably (and completely by accident) snap the tripwires and get declared a bot, while actual bots just stroll right past.

Basically, what you have to do is focus on actual problems: "This shit is flooding us, how do we stop the site falling over?" In some cases (not any instance on fedi), having them do some hashing can work. Authwalling works.
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