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For the time being live feeds for local and remote timelines have been disabled for people who are not logged in on mstdn.social, masto.ai or mastodon.coffee

This is to redcure the amount of scraping by bots and LLMs that reforce our instance to redownload older media and bump up the price even more and fast

This change does not change anything for you!

Maybe a tip for other admins also

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stux⚡️

Very much inspired by

mastodon.social/@mastohost/117361644335860123

Thank you!

Masto.host

2026-09-30 19:29:34

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Some Mastodon servers have been seeing sudden spikes in remote media storage over the past few months, caused by bots crawling public pages and forcing Mastodon to re-download old media.

I wrote a short post on what's happening and how to reduce it:
masto.host/sudden-spikes-in-remote-media-storage/


Sudden Spikes In Remote Media Storage | Masto.host

Masto.host was built from the ground up to make running a Mastodon instance easy.
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Andrew

Thanks for the tip! I've been blocking the crawlers at the CDN level (they use Chrome as the user agent, with older versions between 100 and 150 - any "user" on those versions gets forced into a bot challenge)

This helped, but I've disabled public timelines as well. I've left the local timelines enabled to help potential new users get a feel for the server before they sign up.