Agreed. Its federated. Let instances do thier thing. It gives us more options not less.

Sometimes low tech is the best solution. Thats a good idea :)

Most bots are not sophisticated. If they were…they would just get a human being to do it. The whole point is to do something repetitive easy again and again.

I created a honeypot that creates a link only bots would think is a link. Then it gives them random words with another link. If they click the link 3 times they get ip banned by fail2ban. Works wonders! I can see my logs and the difference it made.

I also have bots.txt that only the big players care about like google.