Lemmy newb here, not sure if this is right for this /c.
An article I found from someone who hosts their own website and micro-social network, and their experience with web-scraping robots who refuse to respect robots.txt, and how they deal with them.
Interesting approach but looks like this ultimately ends up:
Anubis seems like a much better option, for those wanting to block bots without relying on Cloudflare:
https://anubis.techaro.lol/