this OP post is a month old. It wasn’t being DDOSd it was trending on HackerNews. Also lemmy isn’t p2p its federated. This means it still works like a traditional server but can connect to other servers. In other words it’s Decentralized but not Distributed.
hmmm…isnt p2p kinda prone to those attacks 🤔
I understood lemmy is decentralized p2p network how is this possible then? ELI5?
this OP post is a month old. It wasn’t being DDOSd it was trending on HackerNews. Also lemmy isn’t p2p its federated. This means it still works like a traditional server but can connect to other servers. In other words it’s Decentralized but not Distributed.