• Mose13@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 days ago

    In my experience, many Lemmy instances block what looks like bot traffic. I don’t think it’s as simple as VPN = blocked, but that’s probably one of the signals they pay attention to. I’ve noticed most comments will fail to post when I’m using Mullvad.

      • Mose13@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        1 day ago

        I’m totally guessing but I’m guessing it’s more similar to:

        • Accessing from a business owned IP: +20% risk of abuse
        • Accessing from C country: +10% risk of abuse
        • The rate that you’re making requests: +5% risk of abuse
        • Etc

        Block if risk of abuse exceeded X%

        I have no idea what I’m talking about, but I can’t imagine these companies aren’t using some pretty advanced detection of bot traffic