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 :)

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    Even more of a reason to

    1 - have an account on multiple instances

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

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      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!

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        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).

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          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.

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            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).

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            Yep! He has two methods I’m aware of currently, his Github and Ko-Fi. I asked him which he prefers, he said Github has slightly lower fees.

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        Not as extreme. But similar experience. Joined beehaw, then they defederated from some of the main instances I subbed.

        Joined another one and it had a 2 day outage.

        Just built my own and use the other accounts for specific stuff (ie: beehaw is dedicated to subs only in that instance now. )

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        Lemmy.zip has been pretty boss. The admin is pretty transparent about the server and everyone the so far seem like reasonable folks.

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      can’t down everyone at once

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

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    Are we also getting DDoSd? I’m getting constant timeouts and json errors here over the last one hour or so.

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

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        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.

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          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

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      But you can still DDoS with federation. I’m not sure how we’d avoid breaking the idea that anyone can make a server and start federating immediately. Federation naturally is an automated task, so can’t get past this protection.

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    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.

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    I always access from a smaller instance. I didn’t even notice I was looking at older content.

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      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.