Thanks for the update, but this breaks rule #1 - it's not a question and the community is Ask Lemmy. We can leave this up for a few hours so that there's a central place to chat.
this post was submitted on 15 Jul 2023
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No need, there's enough other better suited places where news like this can be discussed.
Suggestions? Then we have a concrete place to point people towards.
No problem, your call. I knew this is mostly outside of the community rules but assumed that a bunch of βwhatβs going on with lemmy.world?β questions will pop up quickly so might as well cross post it here. Feel free to remove when this blows over.
Then change the title of the post to something open-ended like "How vulnerable is Lemmy to DDOS attacks?". Taking out a major node which hosts many key communities is going to have an adverse impact.
Strangely, this is what makes the Federated system so much better than centralized systems. Lemmy.world goes down? No problem I can switch to one of my other accounts in an instant and keep going.
My thoughts exactly, and also it makes it a pretty useless thing to DDoS for what ever reason.
Lol I got home from work and opened Lemmy.world. page loaded fine but I couldn't upvote and the comments wouldn't load. Tried again after restarting firefox and same thing. Switched to Lemdro.id and continued like it wasn't happening.
This is what we in the induatry call "Commitment to to shit postin'"
Thank you for your service!
Darn. Lemmy.world can't catch a break.
Thatβs what you get from being the most popular instance I guess.
And that's why people should spread out, as is the entire point of decentralization
My thoughts exactly
Spez trying to show who's in charge.
Who would be so pissed at lemmy.world to DDoS them?
They might want to consider using Cloudflare or a similar solution if they don't already.
Spez maybe?
Brands don't have to do shit like this. They have weird trolls with weirder parasocial relationships to intellectual property to do it for them, unprompted.
Itβs the rise spezkin. Super Reddit Hyper Loyalists so invested in their upcoming karma farming fortunes that any threat to Reddit gets met with scorched earth tactics.
β¦Iβm only kidding, I hope this doesnβt become a thing.
he's an astroturfer though, is he really low enough to stoop to ddos? thankfully the fediverse is diverse and resilient to attacks to any one instance lol
He'd be. But his fanbois already do that for him so he doesn't have to do it himself and worry about consequences.
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Probably just a terrible person who is bored
As a terrible person who is bored, that seems like too much work
Huffman/Musk
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"The free exchange of communication and ideas, unrestricted by capitalist interference? Can't have that kind of evil in the world. Surely it's my duty to shut this down, so that others may come to know the flavor of corporate boot leather as well as I have."
Iβm browsing from an app via lemmy.world and havenβt noticed any issue yet. Testing to see if this actually posts.
Looks like it didn't work. We can't see your post.
I canβt see either of your comments. Is this because Iβm on lemmyworld also?
have you tried turning it on and off again?
I would have done so, but unfortunately, I couldn't read your advice
I only see hunter2 what do you see?
All I see is hunter2
hunter2
Why did you just post *******?
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In all honesty, I can see your comments from lemm.ee. I wonder if lemmy.world is back up now.
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This isn't an open ended question and as such doesn't belong on this community. You're welcome to continue the discussion over at !fediverse@lemmy.ml
I'll lock the thread but not remove it so that you can see what has been said so far.
This is warning showing why spreading out is important. No one instance being offline should be able to affect so many Motorheads at once.
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I am 100% sure spez and his braindead followers are behind this and nobody can convince me otherwise.
Why did you post this to asklemmy?
Logged on from Lemmy.world through voyager to see if this comment postsβ¦
Edit: looks like it works
It didnβt, canβt see it
Plot twist: user is blind
Damn, hackers are being really uncool towards lemmy.world. Hopefully some good can come from this and they can implement robust security systems that help protect Lemmy instances from these types of attacks.
Is Lemmy.world going to continue to be attacked since itβs one of the biggest?
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