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 :)
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.
Call me a CIActi, because I am dry and prickly and dependent on government funds to survive.
Don’t forget anti Chinese racist.
Oh wait, that’s just Lemmy.ml
It’s for the greater good
The greater good!
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).
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. )
So what really happened to vlemmy.net?
From what I heard, it just kinda poofed.
can’t down everyone at once
Well not until the next catastrophic federation bug gets discovered and abused 💀
Federation will prevail! 🖖
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.
A communications disruption can mean only one thing: invasion.
Could this be related to that massive hacking attack from earlier, where a lot of the big instanes were hacked?
I don’t know man, I was just using a Star Wars quote for shits and giggles.
The vulnerability behind that was patched so it seems unlikely.
I get this movie reference. We need a baseball bat and a glass of water!
Hello small instance friends :)
Are we also getting DDoSd? I’m getting constant timeouts and json errors here over the last one hour or so.
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
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Large instances need to get Cloudflare DDoS protection because it will only get worse.
This does wonders at keeping the instance up, but breaks the mobile apps and federation functionality sadly ☹️
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.
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
Ah fair enough, I think most would be fine with that compromise tbh
Oh Damn. So the community still needs to figure it out…
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.
Lemmy.ml became totally unreachable 15 minutes before Lemmy.world went all “Error” page. Distant Early Warning: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrDj5XvZXX4
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.
I hope lemmy.world comes back.
Why wouldn’t it?
Two sites went down. I’m hoping for one to come back up. Read between the lines.
i bet there’s a lot of people are regretting deleting their reddit accounts lmfao
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.
Yeesh lmfao’ing in every post, maybe book a visit with a proctologist.
I always access from a smaller instance. I didn’t even notice I was looking at older content.
