A Mastodon server administrator reported experiencing a denial-of-service attack characterized by a flood of requests for unusual and non-existent URLs. These requests, which resulted in numerous 404 errors, made the server unavailable for several hours. The administrator suspects the activity is related to scraping, noting requests for both existing content and very old, long-deactivated URLs. AI
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