I noticed that a lot of the posts from Lemmy.World are showing with few or no votes, and often no comments. Going to the actual post shows votes and comments.
Did something change with how we/they sync up?
Reddthat: https://reddthat.com/post/26198974
Slrpnk.net: https://slrpnk.net/post/13517175
That's why I started with "this might be to much work" 😆. Seems like there would be a way to do it without the automated bot blocking just using allow and deny (or challenge I guess it is here). The list would be a bitch to create by hand but shouldn't it exist already somewhere in the federation configs? If so you could broadly allow those while blocking or challenging otherwise. I guess it comes down to how do you identify bot traffic with free, without the tool on.
Full disclosure: I have CF Enterprise experience but I'm just guessing in the Lemmy/federation part and haven't messed with CF free.