michael , 5 days ago to Random

I’ve just released v7.1.0 of FediFetcher. This is an important release that will significantly improve resource usage and running time of FediFetcher, as well as help our users be good citizens of the fediverse.

I encourage you all to update to the latest version asap.

For full details including update instructions visit the release page:

https://github.com/nanos/FediFetcher/releases/tag/v7.1.1

(Edited to point link to 7.1.1 - this is a bug fix, and you should update to 7.1.1 rather than 7.1.0 if you can.)

#MastoAdmin #MastoAdmins #FediAdmin #SingleUserInstance #FediFetcher

michael , 5 days ago to Random

It’s come to my attention that #fedifetcher can put a lot of load on mastodon instances. (Yes, I should’ve foreseen this)

Here are my thoughts on ways to address this. I’d be keen on thoughts by people impacted by this (be it as users of Fedifetcher or as #mastoadmin ) - preferably as comments to that issue.

https://github.com/nanos/FediFetcher/issues/123

(@leah tagging you specifically as you brought this to my attention)

leah , 6 days ago to Random

The amount of FediFetcher instances scraping chaos.social is alarming. They all come from different Azure IPs because it's the recommended way to run it. Github reports: 1.361 deployments. We also see massive scraping from the TOR Network and scraping of RSS Feeds from SerendeputyBot. That sucks! #mastoadmin