I am not DOSing Hexbear, higher traffic from VPN IP addresses is expected because there’s fewer IP addresses per user.

Rate limiting by IP address is an anti-privacy op

Edit: Maybe the rate limit can be increased for login requests?

  • thelastaxolotl [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    18·
    2 days ago

    here is what an admin told me

    Account actions including login are currently rate limited to mitigate the ability of the fascist wreckers currently raiding

    if you look at the modlog, in the morning of today there were a bunch of new accounts banned, and its because there was a raid