@eliasulrich Why won't they let us have nice things?
"The search engine is currently under being hit so aggressively by bots it's interfering with the ability to serve regular search traffic. Emergency anti-scraping measures are enabled. Sorry about the inconvenience."
@Devonkiwi @eliasulrich
Thank you!
@Devonkiwi
This might as well be the link going around on various Mastodon servers and people clicking on it. Sometimes drivers *are* the traffic themselves 🤷
Correction: That was not the reason, <2000 Retoots won't cause this rate of requests.
@eliasulrich
@Devonkiwi
To be fair, some of those bots could be the fedi hug of death as every mastodon (and forks) instance loads a preview of the page to accompany this now-viral toot?
@eliasulrich
@dheadshot not in this case; I mean it might have contributed but the anti-bot measures have been up for a while
On a different note, we do need a "fedi hug of death" emoji!
Sep 9, 2026, 8:13 PM@badrihippo @dheadshot @Devonkiwi @eliasulrich
Or death metal song:
"Fedi. Hug. Offff... Deeeeaaaath!!!" 🎸🎶🥁☠️
@Devonkiwi the index is open source, deploy it, please dont expect free things on top of free things @eliasulrich
@Devonkiwi @eliasulrich oh, that's everyone downloading and running their own crawler... 😏