At this point, many people have been bailing from the server due to the uptime issues. What’s the rub?
Really sucks that some dummies would attack lemmy like this.
Yeah I’m just trying to watch cat vids and those dank memes
One claim is DDOS attacks, another claim is that the servers are too small for the massive amount of people that recently adopted lemmy
I’d love to know which is true just because … . . it’s fun to know details
It’s DDOS. The admins for World have explicitly said so, and even said exactly how the attacks have been perpetrated by exploiting calls that require a lot of processing time to overload the server.
Massive amounts of organic traffic to too small a server technically is a DDOS, even if unintentional rather than malicious. So, both to varying degrees, probably?
I left because of the executive decision to defederate from hexbear.
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that’s the neat part, you don’t.
or at least, not easily.
