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Today, like the past few days, we have had some downtime. Apparently some script kids are enjoying themselves by targeting our server (and others). Sorry for the inconvenience.

Most of these 'attacks' are targeted at the database, but some are more ddos-like and can be mitigated by using a CDN. Some other Lemmy servers are using Cloudflare, so we know that works. Therefore we have chosen Cloudflare as CDN / DDOS protection platform for now. We will look into other options, but we needed something to be implemented asap.

For the other attacks, we are using them to investigate and implement measures like rate limiting etc.

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[โ€“] Jackolantern@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So many hackers targeting lemmy huh.

Script kiddies*

[โ€“] Sharan@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

It's been feeling sluggish all day long as well. I've been trying to post from my phone and PC, and it seems it's really slow from time to time.

I had a hard time signing in the other day as I got confused in the instances but otherwise I'm enjoying the experience browsing here using the summit app.

[โ€“] LexiconDexicon@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Wouldn't be surprised if Cloudflare itself was hiring out blackhats to DDoS attack certain websites in order to get them into the fold, like racketeering. I mean this is America, I wouldn't put it past any company here, even ones pretending to be "virtuous"

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[โ€“] peregus@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Why don't you close the subscription to Lemmy.world so new people will subscribe to smaller server so that if one has problem, not the majority of the people are affected by it? Isn't this supposed to be one of the main characteristic of the fediverse?

[โ€“] Ilovethebomb@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's a bit of a pain having your account on a different instance to the one you most use, you can't browse local communities the way you can if you were on the "home" instance, you can't delete posts.

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