Long-running fediverse instances will likely have old copies of established aussie.zone actors, but federation will be broke for newer instances and/or newer actors.

Verifiable by doing something like:

WORKS:   
curl --header 'accept: application/activity+json' https://reddthat.com/u/lodion

DOESN'T WORK:   
curl --header 'accept: application/activity+json' https://aussie.zone/u/lodion

I chose reddthat.com because it seems like it has similar protection, but allows for AP requests. (other instances use non-CF solutions, but I imagine they've had to make similar tweaks).

It's been a couple of days, so it might be worth some pings:

@admin@aussie.zone

@lodion@aussie.zone

[–] lodion@aussie.zone 1 points 2 weeks ago

Thanks for the ping. Without getting into details, this is a security measure to block AI bots that were scraping aussie.zone and effectively DDoSing us.

If there are specific apps/platforms that are incorrectly being caught in this, I can allow them on a case by case basis.