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[–] [email protected] 62 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Thanks for the update, but this breaks rule #1 - it's not a question and the community is Ask Lemmy. We can leave this up for a few hours so that there's a central place to chat.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No need, there's enough other better suited places where news like this can be discussed.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Suggestions? Then we have a concrete place to point people towards.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago

[email protected] perhaps? There's already a post there.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

No problem, your call. I knew this is mostly outside of the community rules but assumed that a bunch of β€œwhat’s going on with lemmy.world?” questions will pop up quickly so might as well cross post it here. Feel free to remove when this blows over.

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[–] Monkeyhog 262 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Strangely, this is what makes the Federated system so much better than centralized systems. Lemmy.world goes down? No problem I can switch to one of my other accounts in an instant and keep going.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 year ago

My thoughts exactly, and also it makes it a pretty useless thing to DDoS for what ever reason.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago

Lol I got home from work and opened Lemmy.world. page loaded fine but I couldn't upvote and the comments wouldn't load. Tried again after restarting firefox and same thing. Switched to Lemdro.id and continued like it wasn't happening.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago

This is what we in the induatry call "Commitment to to shit postin'"

Thank you for your service!

[–] [email protected] 198 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Darn. Lemmy.world can't catch a break.

[–] [email protected] 60 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That’s what you get from being the most popular instance I guess.

[–] [email protected] 48 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

And that's why people should spread out, as is the entire point of decentralization

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 year ago

My thoughts exactly

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Spez trying to show who's in charge.

[–] [email protected] 161 points 1 year ago (9 children)

Who would be so pissed at lemmy.world to DDoS them?

They might want to consider using Cloudflare or a similar solution if they don't already.

[–] [email protected] 107 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 157 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Brands don't have to do shit like this. They have weird trolls with weirder parasocial relationships to intellectual property to do it for them, unprompted.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

It’s the rise spezkin. Super Reddit Hyper Loyalists so invested in their upcoming karma farming fortunes that any threat to Reddit gets met with scorched earth tactics.

…I’m only kidding, I hope this doesn’t become a thing.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 year ago (1 children)

he's an astroturfer though, is he really low enough to stoop to ddos? thankfully the fediverse is diverse and resilient to attacks to any one instance lol

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (2 children)

He'd be. But his fanbois already do that for him so he doesn't have to do it himself and worry about consequences.

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Probably just a terrible person who is bored

[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 year ago

As a terrible person who is bored, that seems like too much work

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yes something like Cloudflare would be very good. Even I have it on my tiny test instance.

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[–] [email protected] 98 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I’m browsing from an app via lemmy.world and haven’t noticed any issue yet. Testing to see if this actually posts.

[–] [email protected] 136 points 1 year ago (8 children)

Looks like it didn't work. We can't see your post.

[–] [email protected] 54 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I can’t see either of your comments. Is this because I’m on lemmyworld also?

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

have you tried turning it on and off again?

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I would have done so, but unfortunately, I couldn't read your advice

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

I only see hunter2 what do you see?

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

All I see is hunter2

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Why did you just post *******?

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

In all honesty, I can see your comments from lemm.ee. I wonder if lemmy.world is back up now.

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[–] [email protected] 97 points 1 year ago

"The free exchange of communication and ideas, unrestricted by capitalist interference? Can't have that kind of evil in the world. Surely it's my duty to shut this down, so that others may come to know the flavor of corporate boot leather as well as I have."

[–] [email protected] 53 points 1 year ago

This isn't an open ended question and as such doesn't belong on this community. You're welcome to continue the discussion over at [email protected]

I'll lock the thread but not remove it so that you can see what has been said so far.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (3 children)

This is warning showing why spreading out is important. No one instance being offline should be able to affect so many Motorheads at once.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Havent heard motorheads before. Thats funny.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

I am 100% sure spez and his braindead followers are behind this and nobody can convince me otherwise.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Logged on from Lemmy.world through voyager to see if this comment posts…

Edit: looks like it works

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It didn’t, can’t see it

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Plot twist: user is blind

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Why did you post this to asklemmy?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Damn, hackers are being really uncool towards lemmy.world. Hopefully some good can come from this and they can implement robust security systems that help protect Lemmy instances from these types of attacks.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Someone or a group must have some hate towards Lemmy.World. Jeez.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Is Lemmy.world going to continue to be attacked since it’s one of the biggest?

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

at least we're just having outside agitators disrupt our site rather than the admins slitting its wrists and letting it bleed out [whilst sucking the blood]

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