I quote from My BlueSky Archive:
Hey, look, you churlish troglodyte. Thrashing my traffic ain’t cool, and it’s completely unnecessary. The fact that least 1,200+ requests over several days have all come from different IPs tells me the likeliest scenario is you have gained access to a criminal proxy botnet of some kind. It’s spiking my DDOS service, which, works by the way, and it’s fucking up my traffic. I’ve already installed a throttle that *will* block about 85% of your future traffic that *does* get through. But, these are minor points.
I can see you, you idiot, and I can see what you’re trying to crawl. Oh, by the way, your crawler is part malformed because it keeps requesting srcsets and, uh, as far as I can tell that doesn’t really work… does it? I don’t know, I’m not one with the *criminal* botnet, all of which I now have thousands of records for.
If you wanted *all* my BlueSky posts, you could’ve just *asked* but… you can’t really quite do that can you?
Yeah.
I hope you notice my site didn’t go down. It wasn’t affected. But, look, if you’re after my BlueSky posts, which, they are a fucking *mess* here (so you’re crawling is just gonna be a big ol’ mess too), then here, download them. I’m not hiding anything:
That one just has the data in CAR format, and an extracted JSONL format.
Here’s the one with *all* the blobs I could recover (some are missing, it’s in the provenance files):
asherwolfstein-bluesky-2025-05-30-metadata-car-jsonl-blobs.zip
(It was too big for my CMS installation for that fancy download button thing.)
Anyways, stop fucking with my server, thanks.
https://asherwolfstein.com/my-entire-bluesky-archive-arranged-chronologically-by-thread/
Ya could’a just asked.
But you can’t.
And now I have thousands of records of evidence.