There was another attack going on (as you might have noticed). We’re working on a fix. In the meantime, we’ve blocked the listing of comments, so we at least aren’t down, but it did break comments.
Hope to have a fix in the next hour. Stay tuned!
Update OK we’ve implemented a fix, again many thanks to @sunaurus@lemm.ee for his assistance. This will prevent the outages we’ve seen last couple of days. Let’s see what they will come up with next…
I’m sure it must be frustrating to have to deal with these attacks, but in a sense they’re a signifier of how popular / successful this instance is.
Thanks for all the work you do on it, Ruud.
Also the more attacks there are the more vulnerabilities found and get fixed. I think in the long run it helps the platform to mature and be more stable.
I’m getting kinda tired of these attacks. Is some loser from 4chan not getting enough attention from mommy?
Something like that, or potentially some jerk with a knack for technology who’s decided to use their abilities to be an ass.
“What’s wrong?”
“No comment”
Sorry, I’ll show myself out.
You won’t see this, but thanks for working on the fix!
The attack today was wild, someone kept hammering lemmy.world for like 4~5 hours straight. Where do the attacks come from? Maybe also report to law enforcement? (even though practically speaking the chances that they are going to do something about it are very slim)
Hexbear started making a big deal out of the defederation by lemmy.world today on their instance and it’s possible that their script kiddies might have felt the need to retaliate.
These have been going on since they defederated from the Nazi instance but the lefties still get the blame lmao
