Heard it was DDoS attacks, which seems pretty likely.
Another benefit to using a smaller instance (or hosting your own), you don’t have to worry about this stuff
Hopefully they don’t try to mess with Beehaw, y’all are too nice :)
Even more of a reason to
1 - have an account on multiple instances
2 - support multiple instances. Can’t take everyone down at once!
First account: vlemmy.net - went down 2 days later Second account: lemmy.world - has been DDOSed twice and hacked once the week after making the account Third account: this one.
Which instance do you want me to tank next? Apparently I’m pretty good at it!
Do lemmygrad
Do I have to touch it :(
I don’t think it’s in anyone’s best interests to encourage mass users to any single instance. That “everybody get in this same room” behavior is part of the problem.
Lemmy and the fediverse depend upon users distributing themselves across many reliable instances. More users in a single instance equals more demand on that individual server and more vulnerability based on that single server’s status.
can’t down everyone at once
Well not until the next catastrophic federation bug gets discovered and abused 💀
Federation will prevail! 🖖
lemmy.ml is back up!
One thing I like about lemmy and the fediverse-
I honestly wouldn’t know those instances were down, if it was not for people posting about it, lol.
A communications disruption can mean only one thing: invasion.
Large instances need to get Cloudflare DDoS protection because it will only get worse.
This does wonders at keeping the instance up, but breaks the mobile apps and federation functionality sadly ☹️
Oh Damn. So the community still needs to figure it out…
My instance is using Cloudflare and has no issues with federation or mobile apps (I sent this reply with Connect).
Assuming a standard caching configuration, those services should not break under Cloudflare.
Sorry I should have been clearer in my original comment - the DDoS mitigation features of Cloudflare specifically affect the apps and federation, so as long as you aren’t under attack it’s business as usual
Ah fair enough, I think most would be fine with that compromise tbh
i bet there’s a lot of people are regretting deleting their reddit accounts lmfao
Why?
There are over a thousand lemmy instances. Two of them are being DDOSed. The rest are more or less fine.
That’s part of the beauty of the fediverse. You’re not locked in to anything. If one instance goes down, you can just access it through another.
I would think that the most notable thing that will come out of today is a spike in new accounts at a bunch of other instances. The fediverse as a whole will just keep chugging along.