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4 days agoSpeed bumps are pretty much the worst option for speeding. Lane narrowing, adding curves, and lane diets should be preferred, and you can try them out at similar costs with plastic bollards or even cones. That being said if you want speed bumps, install elevated sidewalks instead.
Outside of rate limiting and sending detected bad bots to poisoned static data, yeah not much you can really do without harming valid use cases.
In the federated world people can just set up relays or listener instances, which are far better than hammering hobbyist instances with the additional bandwidth.