If they’re trying to attack all of Lemmy, or the whole Fediverse, they’re doing it wrong. lol
It’s like obvious spam emails that put no effort into appearing legitimate. You have the spirit of it, but your heart is in the wrong place.
Because of the unfortunate centralisation that’s happened, with so many people being directed to lemmy.world or choosing to go there, a big DDoS attack on world would disrupt a lot of communities that people on other instances use. It’s in everyone’s interests to spread the load more, which is why I find it sad when some communities migrate to world. UnixPorn was one, although it was already on lemmy.ml which is a larger instance too
I made a kbin before I made a lemmy account. So when one stops working, switch to the other. Although I do like the apps for lemmy much more (sync).
Yeah, there’s so many communities on world that even if you’re on another instance, a good chunk of content just isn’t available.
Don’t the communities work even while the instance is down?
I suppose modding them while down would be an issue
Not in the way you think. Yes, you can still comment and post in your own instances version, but for other instances to see it it’ll have to go through lemmy.world first and forwarded on. I think it’s a bit murky when it comes to comment replies, though, I believe those do get propagated directly to the instance originating the comment (i.e. if a beehaw.org person comments and you reply, they get it sent directly), but you can see how disruptive it is.
How do you imagine them working if their home instance is down? You can only see the cache of old posts and your comments won’t propagate outside your own instance. If LW is down, everything on LW is down effectively.
ActivityPub is an email inspired P2P-like protocol. Running communities over it is a hack.
Yeah it would be really interesting if it was possible to have a merged community across several instances, like you sub to super community and it gets the information from one of the linked instances and when they’re up they all keep synchronised.
If your instance went down you couldn’t log on but if you could switch to another account on a different instance and access the same major communities - then when that instance comes back it catches up.
@Meowoem @kd637_mi Better yet…
Many Lemmy instances have communities on the same topic. For example, there’s @technology@lemmy.ml and @technology@beehaw.org and @technology@lemmy.world .
It’s unnecessary duplication.
Having a Fediverse-wide !Technology community would avoid a lot of duplication.
Each Lemmy instance would then responsible for the posts of its users, and if an instance fails to moderate appropriately, it gets defederated.
On the bright side, it makes people go to other instances instead of centralizing most the lemmy users on one big one
The lemmy network spreads out and gets better the more it is attacked. Perfectly antifragile
Oh that’s why it keeps going down?! Lol what a dumb waste of time and effort.
I’m happy on .world and don’t mind finding something else to do when it’s down.
The hilarious part is they are probably paying to use some ddos service too.
Yep. You need to make a lot of requests to make a site go down, especially for a longer time. And for that you need a lot of computers. I doubt a lot of people have some sleeping bot nets available that they can use whenever a site admin was mean to them. DDOS as a paid service is pretty established nowadays, so imagine some guy investing his valuable buttcoins for this shit.
I’m pretty sure they only have beef with Lemmy.World for being banned from it.
