Indie-verse is currently hosted behind a Cloudflare proxy, which has saved the server a lot of traffic and helped protect against AI crawlers.

After some careful consideration I also enabled “Bot Fight Mode”, but only after making sure, I had working custom rules that skipped every security feature for federation related traffic.
But it turns out, custom rules can’t skip Bot Fight Mode using a free plan, which I only found out today.
This has left me with no choice, but to disable bot fight mode for now, and it will not be re-enabled while we are on the free plan.

Currently I don’t have the money to upgrade us, but it should not pose an issue, as there are other security measures against bots, that should prevent potential issues.

Thought I would let you know.

- ssnoer

PS: we also just got our very first donation. Thank you guys!