So it turns out .cat is only for Catalonia. I didn’t know this, just thought it was a neat hostname. So… they finally caught me not being Catalan, and they’re taking my domain away.
It’s sad. I’m not really sure what I plan to do, but in about a week, rss.ponder.cat will be no more. Sorry gamers. No promises but one possibility would be to set up a replacement instance, and just send everyone a DM with links to be able to get their subscriptions via the new instance instead.
People are going to complain at me about having to block the new bots, too. Hooray! Well, life goes on.
If you don’t mind sharing, what bot were you using to manage the RSS feeds? I’m also curious what the operating costs / specs for the instance?
It’s just a one-off fetching script I made. Hosting for it and ponder.cat together is just on a super basic $30/mo VPS, I think it is 4 CPUs and 16 GB memory.