Another one if these spikes but this time it hit Community Wiki instead of Emacs Wiki. Oh no. 😞
The bots really are forcing me to ban bigger and bigger swathes of the net. And that means as far, as I am concerned, that that bad actors are added to a list and so IP numbers accrue a bad reputation. Like they do for email already.
Who would have thought that frugal computing required such active management and defence? Hosting dynamic sites instead of static sites but also not wanting to pay much for it used to be easier, I think. Maybe?
@alex there've been bot-related costs and malicious traffic for as long as i can remember, but this feels like it's intensified massively everywhere. it gets harder and harder to imagine a network where public-by-default keeps being a viable approach.
@brennen @alex Isn't this inevitable with unmetered Internet connections available to "everybody"? Isn't the only way to make clients/peers pay the server/peer per access? Micropayments ... that failed, but cryptocurrency hasn't :-( maybe #BraveBrowser is on to something.
@tetrislife It depends. Other solutions are possible. All IP numbers tied to government-issued IDs and a global policing network watching and repressing bad behaviour. Uuuuugh! Or a global compact of ISP declaring that they will defederate from data leeches with a transparent scoring system. Uuuugh! So, not everything has to be associated with monetary cost but some sort of incentive system needs to exist. Currently I’m supporting the reputation damage of bad actors, I guess?
@brennen