Imagine your life is so worthless that you decided to ddos a feddiverse instance
this post was submitted on 09 Aug 2023
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I mean it could also be someone that was hired to do it. You know getting rid of the competition before it becomes a real competitor.
that doesn't make their life any less worthless
wait how does the motivation for it not affect that
Actually is quite easy to image.
...if someone pay them to do so.
I sure it’s Spez.
People, if an instance is crumbling, sign up to another instance! When you are able to use lemmy.world again, use lemmy2opml/lemmy_migrate (or any other tool that works, there's a list on the Awesome Lemmy Github page) to migrate your followed communities to the new instance.
I don't think the problem is much on the identification side, but on the communities one
Like, I can't access any community on .world while the instance is down
Who and why is attacking lemmy.world?
Pasting my comment from another thread.
From what I understand a user(Lmao/Angled) was "sub-lemmy camping" (took up thousands of popular sub names and wasn't doing anything with them) so lemmy world banned him from that instance. He had a hissy fit and "vowed revenge" and has been attempting to do as much damage to .world as he/they could since. I can't find the original post but https://old.lemmy.world/post/943832 and https://old.lemmy.world/post/1720870 has a bit of detail.
What a fucking donkey
And that guy probably didn't do anything with the communities and just hoarded them? What a donkey...
My guess is it was to weasel his way into having mod control over as many subs as he could in hopes some would take off. This happened in June around the time reddit was having their blackout protests.
🤣 What a sad sad existence. Fucking donkey.
Up to date post. https://old.lemmy.world/post/2923697
Doesn't give much on who and why, more on what/how along with dispelling some myths.
Whoever is doing it is very quickly walking through a list of expensive queries to use in their DDoS attacks. Lemmy.world is playing whack-a-mole instead of proactively rate limiting/mitigating expensive queries. It may be that all their time is spent diagnosing and fixing with none left for proactive fixes.
The fact that the attacks are evolving and always hitting expensive queries implies that it's a moderately skilled person/group familiar with the lemmy codebase.
You can speculate on motives as well as I can.
The net effect will be a more robust server and hopefully that code/knowledge is disseminated to other instances.
Some people are so sad lol
i even notice downtime, so i guess who ever is attacking is doing a very shitty job lol.
Here is some useful information for people wanting to move instances. For a list of instances, along with with stats for those instances:
https://fedidb.org/software/lemmy or https://lemmyverse.net/
Also, tools for migrating instances:
https://github.com/CMahaff/lasim (easy) - Latest Version Download (just select your OS type and run the program)
We are writing from an other instance account but yeah! You can do it!! 💪🏼
I don't know if it's ddos attacks or if it's a "lemmy hug of death" way to many users overloading the servers network, we need a bigger Internet pipe?
The site usually works for me during off hours early morning usually best.
I really don't get the sense that Lemmy is being overwhelmed by users. Things be pretty quite in these here parts. If this kind of volume is bringing down what I thought was one of the main instances, Fediverse seems kind of doomed. I've long been worried about scalability. I've tried other instances and had issues. Each time I think should I give up or hop instances, make a new account etc. People will flock to the biggest most stable instances, but if they can't afford fancy hosting, everything starts to crumble