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 ( @TurnItOff_OnAgain@lemdro.id ) English72•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 ( @lemmylefty@geddit.social ) English39•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!
- collegefurtrader ( @collegefurtrader@discuss.tchncs.de ) English26•1 year ago
Do lemmygrad
- lemmylefty ( @lemmylefty@geddit.social ) English30•1 year ago
Do I have to touch it :(
- sarsaparilyptus ( @sarsaparilyptus@lemmy.fmhy.ml ) English21•1 year ago
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.
- lemmylefty ( @lemmylefty@geddit.social ) English9•1 year ago
Call me a CIActi, because I am dry and prickly and dependent on government funds to survive.
- BloodForTheBloodGod ( @BloodForTheBloodGod@lemmy.ca ) English1•1 year ago
Don’t forget anti Chinese racist.
Oh wait, that’s just Lemmy.ml
- Katzastrophe ( @Katzastrophe@feddit.de ) English8•1 year ago
It’s for the greater good
- TWeaK ( @TWeaK@lemm.ee ) English4•1 year ago
The greater good!
- Myriadblue ( @Myriadblue@kbin.social ) 1•1 year ago
Seems to fit with your user name…
- TWeaK ( @TWeaK@lemm.ee ) English18•1 year ago
- substill ( @substill@lemm.ee ) English20•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 ( @TWeaK@lemm.ee ) English9•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).
- SuperSecretThrowaway ( @SuperSecretThrowaway@lemmynsfw.com ) English3•1 year ago
Does he have a way to fund his lemmy instance? I’d love to help support someone like that who contributes to the codebase
- TWeaK ( @TWeaK@lemm.ee ) English6•1 year ago
- Freeman ( @freeman@lemmy.pub ) English8•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. )
- stardust ( @stardust@beehaw.org ) English7•1 year ago
- subway ( @subway@lemmy.fmhy.ml ) English2•1 year ago
So what really happened to vlemmy.net?
- Ganbat ( @Ganbat@lemmyonline.com ) English4•1 year ago
From what I heard, it just kinda poofed.
- lemmylefty ( @lemmylefty@geddit.social ) English3•1 year ago
- Altima NEO ( @altima_neo@lemmy.zip ) English2•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 ( @monerobull@monero.town ) English5•1 year ago
can’t down everyone at once
Well not until the next catastrophic federation bug gets discovered and abused 💀
- 37219 ( @37219@lemm.ee ) English10•1 year ago
Federation will prevail! 🖖
- Papamousse ( @Frederic@beehaw.org ) English2•1 year ago
Yup, I have one on beehaw and one on LW
- Papamousse ( @Frederic@beehaw.org ) English1•1 year ago
Yup, I have one on beehaw and one on LW
- Papamousse ( @Frederic@beehaw.org ) English1•1 year ago
Yup, I have one on beehaw and one on LW
- substill ( @substill@lemm.ee ) English30•1 year ago
A communications disruption can mean only one thing: invasion.
- Rhabuko ( @Rhabuko@feddit.de ) English5•1 year ago
I get this movie reference. We need a baseball bat and a glass of water!
- TerryTPlatypus ( @TerryTPlatypus@beehaw.org ) English3•1 year ago
Could this be related to that massive hacking attack from earlier, where a lot of the big instanes were hacked?
- substill ( @substill@lemm.ee ) English5•1 year ago
I don’t know man, I was just using a Star Wars quote for shits and giggles.
- Parsnip8904 ( @Parsnip8904@beehaw.org ) English1•1 year ago
The vulnerability behind that was patched so it seems unlikely.
- Parsnip8904 ( @Parsnip8904@beehaw.org ) English20•1 year ago
Are we also getting DDoSd? I’m getting constant timeouts and json errors here over the last one hour or so.
- NotSteve_ ( @NotSteve_@lemmy.ca ) English9•1 year ago
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 Cuuuuube ( @Cube6392@beehaw.org ) English7•1 year ago
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
- NotSteve_ ( @NotSteve_@lemmy.ca ) English8•1 year ago
Yeah, it’s kind of annoying. I really like Beehaw but it sucks to get connection errors regularly
- Mereo ( @Mereo@lemmy.ca ) English16•1 year ago
Large instances need to get Cloudflare DDoS protection because it will only get worse.
- 𝒍𝒆𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒏 ( @lemann@lemmy.one ) English8•1 year ago
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.
- 𝒍𝒆𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒏 ( @lemann@lemmy.one ) English5•1 year ago
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
- Mereo ( @Mereo@lemmy.ca ) English2•1 year ago
Oh Damn. So the community still needs to figure it out…
- CoderKat ( @CoderKat@lemm.ee ) English1•1 year ago
But you can still DDoS with federation. I’m not sure how we’d avoid breaking the idea that anyone can make a server and start federating immediately. Federation naturally is an automated task, so can’t get past this protection.
- BitOneZero ( @BitOneZero@beehaw.org ) English12•1 year ago
Lemmy.ml became totally unreachable 15 minutes before Lemmy.world went all “Error” page. Distant Early Warning: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrDj5XvZXX4
- thayer ( @thayer@lemmy.ca ) English2•1 year ago
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”.
- CarrierLost ( @CarrierLost@lemmy.one ) English6•1 year ago
Can’t watch a Rush video in Canada? I’m pretty sure there’s a law against that.
- TWeaK ( @TWeaK@lemm.ee ) English2•1 year ago
That video doesn’t work for me :( I hope you’re sorry
- BitOneZero ( @BitOneZero@beehaw.org ) English2•1 year ago
- TWeaK ( @TWeaK@lemm.ee ) English2•1 year ago
That’s done the trick, thanks!
- whenever8186 ( @whenever8186@beehaw.org ) English2•1 year ago
Lol I was just watching some Rush videos last night, and this was one of them. Love that song.
- yarn ( @yarn@sopuli.xyz ) English11•1 year ago
Hello small instance friends :)
- HTTP_404_NotFound ( @xtremeownage@lemmyonline.com ) English10•1 year ago
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.
- MrMonkey ( @MrMonkey@lemm.ee ) English9•1 year ago
I hope lemmy.world comes back.
- jay ( @lunarshot@beehaw.org ) English7•1 year ago
Why wouldn’t it?
- MrMonkey ( @MrMonkey@lemm.ee ) English4•1 year ago
Two sites went down. I’m hoping for one to come back up. Read between the lines.
- BitOneZero ( @BitOneZero@beehaw.org ) English3•1 year ago
It is sort of responding now, slow, but better than it was 15 minutes ago.
- henfredemars ( @henfredemars@lemdro.id ) English6•1 year ago
I always access from a smaller instance. I didn’t even notice I was looking at older content.
- argv_minus_one ( @argv_minus_one@beehaw.org ) English5•1 year ago
Beehaw was having a lot of 502s over the last few days. Not sure if DDoS or something else, though.
- numbscroll ( @numbscroll@kbin.social ) 4•1 year ago
Love that I can hop over to kbin (or vice versa) when this stuff happens.
- mutant ( @mutant@kbin.social ) 4•1 year ago
i bet there’s a lot of people are regretting deleting their reddit accounts lmfao
- Rottcodd ( @Rottcodd@kbin.social ) 22•1 year ago
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.
- tal ( @tal@kbin.social ) 9•1 year ago
You don’t even need an account if you just want to browse.
- mccord ( @mccord@kbin.social ) 4•1 year ago
Yeesh lmfao’ing in every post, maybe book a visit with a proctologist.
- Rhabuko ( @Rhabuko@feddit.de ) English3•1 year ago
The time of lemmy named domains is over and the reign of Feddit has begun!
- RoundSparrow @ .ee ( @RoundSparrow@lemm.ee ) English3•1 year ago
lemmy.ml is back up!
- ko4la ( @ko4la@lemmynsfw.com ) English3•1 year ago
plot twist: the ddos was organized by beehaw
- aka_oscar ( @aka_oscar@beehaw.org ) English4•1 year ago
Those pollen-addict buckeroos are always up to something. smh when will it end
- smh ( @smh@beehaw.org ) English3•1 year ago
Shrug. I dunno.
- aka_oscar ( @aka_oscar@beehaw.org ) English3•1 year ago
Your sole existence just made my day better