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Mastodon instance overwhelmed by AI crawlers, impacting performance

A MediaWiki instance hosted on Mastodon is experiencing severe performance issues due to a high volume of AI crawler traffic. The instance, managed by user @JabberFR, was already slow before the surge in activity. The issue has been attributed to crawlers from Anthropic, a prominent AI research company. AI

IMPACT AI crawlers are causing performance degradation for some web services, potentially impacting user experience and infrastructure costs.

RANK_REASON The issue describes a performance problem impacting a specific instance of a platform, rather than a widespread product release or major industry event.

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Mastodon instance overwhelmed by AI crawlers, impacting performance

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  1. Mastodon — fosstodon.org TIER_1 English(EN) · [email protected] ·

    Our ( @ JabberFR ) crappy mediawiki is currently catching fire because it is being hammered by AI crawlers (and it was already not fast before)… Anthropic in pa

    Our ( @ JabberFR ) crappy mediawiki is currently catching fire because it is being hammered by AI crawlers (and it was already not fast before)… Anthropic in particular is crawling all the fucking discussion pages in search for data to feed the machine: and they are the good ones…