Lemmy.world can’t catch a break.
I now exist on two lemmies. Behold the power of the fediverse!
I now exist on two lemmies.
They’re instances, or servers. Lemmy is the platform.
I hate assholes that do this. Why? I mean really why?
Was it someone with Turtle something in their handle? I can’t remember his/her whole name but they freaked out a few weeks ago when they got banned on Reddit after being a power mod that enjoyed being a jerk and they showed up here in Lemmy for a day or two.
Awkwardtheturtle
I remember seeing the screenshots of their tantrum. That person severely needs to touch grass.
Children. They’re children. Let’s not call these childish little bastards “men”!
Hopefully this crap is contributing to Lemmy overall being stronger. If the developers can plug the holes in the overall architecture so systemic vulnerabilities are minimal, and people make accounts on multiple instances and just switch when one is down, it might take the “fun” out of taking an instance down.
DDOS is a pretty brute-force attack, so it isn’t typically relying on a vulnerability per se. Pretty much the only way to mitigate it is to have large enough infrastructure that you can detect and filter out its gobs of spammy traffic, which no Lemmy instances (at least at the moment) can really practically have. They could potentially use a service like CloudFlare, which does have that infrastructure in place, but that can be expensive. I’d imagine CloudFlare (or a competitor) is probably the best solution they can go with, at least in the short-term.
They’re back, but performance is a bit slow.
