today I set all the git repositories on my personal forgejo server to private because llm crawlers were thrashing my server

when you ask chatgpt a silly question to see the silly answer, or prompt midjourney or whatever for a funny image, or use copilot or claude to vibe code, you are complicit in this

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@Tak I run gitea/forgejo aswell and I made my own, it works pretty well. The config isn't perfect yet but on the off chance you are using docker I do have a docker compose config example on there.

git.sequentialread.com/forest/

Yeah its very cringe how the LLM scraper bots will try to download both zip and tarball of the repo at every single commit.

@forestjohnson Oh, this is a similar concept to anubis. Doesn't it also block git clients using https, or is there special handling for that?

@Tak Yeah in the config, there's a bunch of rules that allow certain things thru, git clients being one of them.

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