Lemmy.world is down because of a DDOS attack

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.

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.

!fediverse@lemmy.ml perhaps? There’s already a post there.

No problem, your call. I knew this is mostly outside of the community rules but assumed that a bunch of “what’s going on with lemmy.world?” 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.

That’s 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

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.

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.

It’s 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.

…I’m only kidding, I hope this doesn’t 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.

Probably just a terrible person who is bored

As a terrible person who is bored, that seems like too much work

Yes something like Cloudflare would be very good. Even I have it on my tiny test instance.

It doesn’t break federation? I recall it broke federation for kbin, thought it’d be the same for Lemmy sue to the underlying tech being the same.

It definitely works with Lemmy, but that could certainly explain an issue I’ve been having with kbin!

Or ThreatX, I believe they are more inexpensive than CF

I couldn’t load anything on Mlem for a few minutes but other than that it’s just been slow for me

That lmao dude that kept creating spam communities?

I’m browsing from an app via lemmy.world and haven’t noticed any issue yet. Testing to see if this actually posts.

Looks like it didn’t work. We can’t see your post.

I can’t see either of your comments. Is this because I’m on lemmyworld also?

have you tried turning it on and off again?

All I see is hunter2

Why did you just post *******?

I also can’t see lifecoach5000’s test post

Well surely you’ll be able to see mine.

I CAN SEE THIS. REMOVE THIS FROM MY PHONE. I DID NOT SUBSCRIBE TO THIS FACEBOOK. CRACKERBARGLE. I MUSTHAVE BEEN HACKED.

DORIS DIED LAST TUESDAY. RPLY IN BIG LETTERS LOST MY GLASSES AND CABT SEE SMALL ONES.

It’ll probably show up.

In all honesty, I can see your comments from lemm.ee. I wonder if lemmy.world is back up now.

Everything is loading rather slow though I will say.

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