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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Normally I check lemmy.ml when lemmy.world is down. It was fine in the attack that also took down lemmy.blahaj.zone, so I guess I thought it was more secure because it is The Tech Instance. I’m sad it let me down this time lol
i bet there’s a lot of people are regretting deleting their reddit accounts lmfao
Yeesh lmfao’ing in every post, maybe book a visit with a proctologist.
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.
You don’t even need an account if you just want to browse.
again??
Even more of a reason to
1 - have an account on multiple instances
2 - support multiple instances. Can’t take everyone down at once!
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!
Do lemmygrad
Do I have to touch it :(
It seems like you’re expressing something about Lemmygrad that isn’t enthusiastic and unconditional endorsement. Clearly you are a reactionary alt-right racist Nazi, and probably (definitely) a CIA plant.
Don’t forget anti Chinese racist.
Oh wait, that’s just Lemmy.ml
Call me a CIActi, because I am dry and prickly and dependent on government funds to survive.
It’s for the greater good
The greater good!
So what really happened to vlemmy.net?
From what I heard, it just kinda poofed.
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. )
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.
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).
Does he have a way to fund his lemmy instance? I’d love to help support someone like that who contributes to the codebase
Lemmy.zip has been pretty boss. The admin is pretty transparent about the server and everyone the so far seem like reasonable folks.
Yup, I have one on beehaw and one on LW
Yup, I have one on beehaw and one on LW
can’t down everyone at once
Well not until the next catastrophic federation bug gets discovered and abused 💀
Federation will prevail! 🖖
Yup, I have one on beehaw and one on LW
Lemmy.ml became totally unreachable 15 minutes before Lemmy.world went all “Error” page. Distant Early Warning: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrDj5XvZXX4
That video doesn’t work for me :( I hope you’re sorry
That’s done the trick, thanks!
Such a good song, and ironically I can’t play the video from Canada, “The uploader has not made this video available in your country”.
Can’t watch a Rush video in Canada? I’m pretty sure there’s a law against that.
Lol I was just watching some Rush videos last night, and this was one of them. Love that song.
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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Beehaw was also down for me. Ended up opening a new account on Lemmy.ca since Beehaw seems to be taken down so often :(
The weird ones are the every hour on the hour outages. It seems like there’s some scheduled task on Beehaw’s server that’s restarting lemmy
Yeah, it’s kind of annoying. I really like Beehaw but it sucks to get connection errors regularly
A communications disruption can mean only one thing: invasion.
I get this movie reference. We need a baseball bat and a glass of water!
Could this be related to that massive hacking attack from earlier, where a lot of the big instanes were hacked?
The vulnerability behind that was patched so it seems unlikely.
I don’t know man, I was just using a Star Wars quote for shits and giggles.
damnn this is why I can’t see it. why would it happen once I’m trying to access them…
plot twist: the ddos was organized by beehaw
Those pollen-addict buckeroos are always up to something. smh when will it end
Shrug. I dunno.
Your sole existence just made my day better
Beehaw was having a lot of 502s over the last few days. Not sure if DDoS or something else, though.
Love that I can hop over to kbin (or vice versa) when this stuff happens.
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.
lemmy.ml is back up!
I always access from a smaller instance. I didn’t even notice I was looking at older content.
ha, i went to check wefwef app when i woke up, updated it like ok that was why. no content after. realizing I’m enjoying the lemmy/kbin stuff now and would be sad without it. i try to browse reddit but I don’t want to waste my time there. I enjoy being a part of these cutting edge projects.
