About limiting the non human internet bandwidth pollution

On Thu Jul 9, 2020 at 8:42 AM CEST, defdefred wrote:
> Hello Geminaut,
>
> I wonder if trying to limite the non human and individual human internet
> bandwidth usage, could be good for the planet?
>
> Way to do this could be:
> - no more than 1 req/s from one IP
> - explicit autorisation for crawler with a maximum of req/day

There is a temporary error status code (44) with the meaning of "slow
down", intended for use in rate limiting schemes like this.  To my
knowledge, no server yet supports configuring this, but I do plan to add
it to Molly Brown and have been thinking of simple ways to implement it.
Anyway, that would be the obvious way to do this.

I fully understand and appreciate the issue and motivation, and want to
be mindful of the issue, but we shouldn't lose sight of the fact that
things like Gemini and Gopher are, by default and without any special
effort, orders of magnitude less resource intensive than most of the
modern internet.

Cheers,
Solderpunk

> How to manage multi-user http2gemini gateway?
>
> freD.

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