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 :)

  • TurnItOff_OnAgain@lemdro.idEnglish
    72·
    1 year ago

    Even more of a reason to

    1 - have an account on multiple instances

    2 - support multiple instances. Can’t take everyone down at once!

    • lemmylefty@geddit.socialEnglish
      37·
      1 year ago

      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!

      • TWeaK@lemm.eeEnglish
        18·
        1 year ago

        lemm.ee! The lead admin is top notch, he contributes directly to the lemmy codebase and implements his working mods there before they get accepted. He was also one of the key helpers in the first lemmy.world hack (which incidentally lemm.ee was immune to).

        • substill@lemm.eeEnglish
          20·
          1 year ago

          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.

          • TWeaK@lemm.eeEnglish
            9·
            1 year ago

            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).

          • TWeaK@lemm.eeEnglish
            6·
            1 year ago

            Yep! He has two methods I’m aware of currently, his Github and Ko-Fi. I asked him which he prefers, he said Github has slightly lower fees.

      • Freeman@lemmy.pubEnglish
        8·
        1 year ago

        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. )

      • Altima NEO@lemmy.zipEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        Lemmy.zip has been pretty boss. The admin is pretty transparent about the server and everyone the so far seem like reasonable folks.

    • monerobull@monero.townEnglish
      5·
      1 year ago

      can’t down everyone at once

      Well not until the next catastrophic federation bug gets discovered and abused 💀