“Due to the relatively large traffic requirements of git clones, this represents about 70% of all outgoing network traffic from git.sr.ht. A single module can produce as much as 4 GiB of daily traffic from Google.”
Google’s Go proxy does full git clones of SourceHut repos up to 2,500 times an hour, sometimes 100 times an hour for one repo. SourceHut reported it on Feb. 24, 2021. The discussion stalled and DeVault got banned from the Go issue tracker without explanation. Google offloads its caching costs onto a small host and SourceHut’s only lever is a 429.