Elena Rossini 📍 FOSDEM @_elena@mastodon.social
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Yesterday my VPS set off a warning, as it was hit by a huge spike in incoming traffic, peaking at 55GB at 2:15pm and lasting for an hour.

Upon investigating, it turns out it was my PeerTube instance that was targeted.

Where did the traffic come from?

meta-externalagent (aka Meta's web crawler which is used to grab content to train its AI system).

I feel a little bit violated thinking my Fediverse promo video was grabbed by it, sigh.

a screenshot of my VPS dashboard showing little traffic and then a huge spike at 14:15 local time showing 55 GB in incoming traffic
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