Heard it was DDoS attacks, which seems pretty likely.
Another benefit to using a smaller instance (or hosting your own), you don’t have to worry about this stuff

Hopefully they don’t try to mess with Beehaw, y’all are too nice :)

  • TurnItOff_OnAgain@lemdro.idEnglish
    4·
    1 year ago

    Even more of a reason to

    1 - have an account on multiple instances

    2 - support multiple instances. Can’t take everyone down at once!

    • lemmylefty@geddit.socialEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      First account: vlemmy.net - went down 2 days later Second account: lemmy.world - has been DDOSed twice and hacked once the week after making the account Third account: this one.

      Which instance do you want me to tank next? Apparently I’m pretty good at it!

      • TWeaK@lemm.eeEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        lemm.ee! The lead admin is top notch, he contributes directly to the lemmy codebase and implements his working mods there before they get accepted. He was also one of the key helpers in the first lemmy.world hack (which incidentally lemm.ee was immune to).

        • substill@lemm.eeEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          I don’t think it’s in anyone’s best interests to encourage mass users to any single instance. That “everybody get in this same room” behavior is part of the problem.

          Lemmy and the fediverse depend upon users distributing themselves across many reliable instances. More users in a single instance equals more demand on that individual server and more vulnerability based on that single server’s status.

          • TWeaK@lemm.eeEnglish
            1·
            1 year ago

            While I agree with that, lemm.ee doesn’t seem to be dominating much. It isn’t even top 3 - the top 4 in my understanding is lemmy.ml, lemmy.world, beehaw.org and sh.itjust.works (in the order they fell out my brain). So I don’t feel guilty cheerleading for it, at least not right now.

            However in terms of user experience, lemm.ee has been by far the most reliable for me. Afaik it was the first to have a truly stable version of v0.18 (he didn’t upgrade right away, but implemented a modified version of a release candidate of v0.18.1).

    • monerobull@monero.townEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      can’t down everyone at once

      Well not until the next catastrophic federation bug gets discovered and abused 💀

  • Mereo@lemmy.caEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    Large instances need to get Cloudflare DDoS protection because it will only get worse.

      • aranym@lemmy.nameOPEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        My instance is using Cloudflare and has no issues with federation or mobile apps (I sent this reply with Connect).

        Assuming a standard caching configuration, those services should not break under Cloudflare.

        • 𝒍𝒆𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒏@lemmy.oneEnglish
          2·
          1 year ago

          Sorry I should have been clearer in my original comment - the DDoS mitigation features of Cloudflare specifically affect the apps and federation, so as long as you aren’t under attack it’s business as usual

  • HTTP_404_NotFound@lemmyonline.comEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    One thing I like about lemmy and the fediverse-

    I honestly wouldn’t know those instances were down, if it was not for people posting about it, lol.

    • Rottcodd@kbin.social
      4·
      1 year ago

      Why?

      There are over a thousand lemmy instances. Two of them are being DDOSed. The rest are more or less fine.

      That’s part of the beauty of the fediverse. You’re not locked in to anything. If one instance goes down, you can just access it through another.

      I would think that the most notable thing that will come out of today is a spike in new accounts at a bunch of other instances. The fediverse as a whole will just keep chugging along.