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AI bot problem is real and there is no good solution to it. Look, I very much dislike GitHub for various reasons BUT currently there is no good way to throttle AI bots that literally trash web. They are like that geeky classmate who can never hold his liquors: it's nice having them around for some answers, but they ramble a lot and shit/puke in random places of the house making it unlivable.
They are the ones who created this crap
Sure is. There are plenty of protocols resilient to DDOS.
DDOS is most effective on expensive endpoints. A git clone isn't exactly cheap. Fetching is especially expensive if you vary the revisions you fetch.
Does GitHub have an alternative here? A Git-compatible protocol with anonymous access that is DDoS-resilient?
have you never heard of anubis? tons of websites use that to screen out most of the AI scrapers.