There was another attack going on (as you might have noticed). We’re working on a fix. In the meantime, we’ve blocked the listing of comments, so we at least aren’t down, but it did break comments.
Hope to have a fix in the next hour. Stay tuned!
Update OK we’ve implemented a fix, again many thanks to @[email protected] for his assistance. This will prevent the outages we’ve seen last couple of days. Let’s see what they will come up with next…
I’m sure it must be frustrating to have to deal with these attacks, but in a sense they’re a signifier of how popular / successful this instance is.
Thanks for all the work you do on it, Ruud.
Also the more attacks there are the more vulnerabilities found and get fixed. I think in the long run it helps the platform to mature and be more stable.
The script kiddies are unpaid QA testers.
Big ditto!
I’m getting kinda tired of these attacks. Is some loser from 4chan not getting enough attention from mommy?
Something like that, or potentially some jerk with a knack for technology who’s decided to use their abilities to be an ass.
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Or maybe it’s a jealous u/Spez
Hexbear was just defederated so that could have something to do with it
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A very pro-communist instance was blocked from interacting with all of Lemmy.world.
Communists mad about Free Association? Say it ain’t so!
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I don’t think anyone is disagreeing that it’s the admins’ right to block hexbear, I was just pointing out that may have led to this attack. Only speculation though
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The attack today was wild, someone kept hammering lemmy.world for like 4~5 hours straight. Where do the attacks come from? Maybe also report to law enforcement? (even though practically speaking the chances that they are going to do something about it are very slim)
Hexbear started making a big deal out of the defederation by lemmy.world today on their instance and it’s likely that their script kiddies might have felt the need to retaliate.
These have been going on since they defederated from the Nazi instance but the lefties still get the blame lmao
Looks like it’s fixed now?
“What’s wrong?”
“No comment”
Sorry, I’ll show myself out.
Thanks Ruud! LW staff are doing a great job!
Thank you for letting us know!
This is why I have a couple different fediverse accounts
You mean Lemmy? Or do I not get it still…
Lemmy is a part of the fediverse.
The OP has a kbin account, which is something akin to Lemmy. But they can comment here because both kbin and lemmy are a part of the fediverse and therefore are interoperable.
But within lemmy itself, you can also have accounts on different instances too! E.g. my account is on lemm.ee, while yours is on lemmy.world. Both servers are a part of Lemmy, but act separately, and are interoperable!
Think of it like email.
Kbin is like gmail.com, lemmy is like outlook.com. Users on gmail can send and receive emails from outlook, and vice versa.
Now think of lemm.ee as outlook.co.uk, and lemmy.world as outlook.co.ca.I hope this clarifies stuff a bit!
Thanks!
To add to that, there’s federated twitter-like apps such as mastadon, they can comment and post on Lemmy too. Same with kbin but kbin integrates the microblogging fully,
What kind of attack is this one?
The comments still seem to be generating, so I’m able to see them. Great work on your instance @[email protected], you’re handling your tenure as Lemmy’s largest instance extremely well!
Why don’t these people go and do something useful, like play in traffic?
Why would you attack Lemmy in the first place? I guess it’s probably because you can for some wierd people.
Some people just do because they are mean and have the knowledge to do so.
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Because their mommy was mean to them today - (told them to take a shower).
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Because their hot pockets burned their mouths.
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Because they have a micropenis.
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Because they see themselves as helping make the site better.
D. All of the above
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those damn script kiddies
test (:
test :P
You won’t see this, but thanks for working on the fix!
