@einmad@pwm they dont hammer fast. it's 10000s of IPs requesting accounts crawling via mentions/reposts 1-2 requests every maybe 30-45 seconds sometimes up to a minute or two. but because there are so many of them it flies under the radar because it doesn't appear as a traffic anomaly
the challenge might be enough. ideally I'd like to redirect traffic to a separate server set up as a tarpit so it keeps the request open forever just to see what it would do