If they’re trying to attack all of Lemmy, or the whole Fediverse, they’re doing it wrong. lol
It’s like obvious spam emails that put no effort into appearing legitimate. You have the spirit of it, but your heart is in the wrong place.
- kd637_mi ( @kd637_mi@lemmy.sdf.org ) 81•1 year ago
Because of the unfortunate centralisation that’s happened, with so many people being directed to lemmy.world or choosing to go there, a big DDoS attack on world would disrupt a lot of communities that people on other instances use. It’s in everyone’s interests to spread the load more, which is why I find it sad when some communities migrate to world. UnixPorn was one, although it was already on lemmy.ml which is a larger instance too
- Rognaut ( @Rognaut@kbin.social ) 25•1 year ago
I made a kbin before I made a lemmy account. So when one stops working, switch to the other. Although I do like the apps for lemmy much more (sync).
- BedSharkPal ( @BedSharkPal@lemmy.ca ) 19•1 year ago
Could also just make a Lemmy account on another instance?
- flameguy21 ( @flameguy21@lemm.ee ) English16•1 year ago
Yeah, there’s so many communities on world that even if you’re on another instance, a good chunk of content just isn’t available.
- OtakuAltair ( @OtakuAltair@lemm.ee ) English4•1 year ago
Don’t the communities work even while the instance is down?
I suppose modding them while down would be an issue
- jcg ( @jcg@halubilo.social ) 6•1 year ago
Not in the way you think. Yes, you can still comment and post in your own instances version, but for other instances to see it it’ll have to go through lemmy.world first and forwarded on. I think it’s a bit murky when it comes to comment replies, though, I believe those do get propagated directly to the instance originating the comment (i.e. if a beehaw.org person comments and you reply, they get it sent directly), but you can see how disruptive it is.
- DJDarren ( @DJDarren@beehaw.org ) English1•1 year ago
sad Beehaw noises
- Echo Dot ( @echodot@feddit.uk ) 3•1 year ago
Beehaw did themselves dirty when they decided to go on a random defederating spree.
I know what the justification given was, it just doesn’t make sense. There are plenty of instances that are of the same size and won’t defederated.
- 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️ ( @Kolanaki@yiffit.net ) English26•1 year ago
I’m pretty sure they only have beef with Lemmy.World for being banned from it.
- Defiant ( @Defiant@lemmy.cafe ) 25•1 year ago
I see a lot of people sticking to one instance. I try to use different ones to mix it up. Yes it’s annoying losing your subscriptions but every instance has a different vibe and community which I like
- eric5949 ( @eric5949@lemmy.cloudaf.site ) 22•1 year ago
Using my own instance I guess if it’s getting ddos’d I know someone’s mad at me specifically lol
- Defiant ( @Defiant@lemmy.cafe ) 2•1 year ago
Yeah I’m using a smaller instance but love the vibe on smaller ones. I’m glad I can experience the growth of the fediverse.
- transistor ( @transistor@lemdro.id ) English15•1 year ago
There are scripts that let you import your subscriptions from other accounts.
- Blaze (he/him) ( @Blaze@sopuli.xyz ) 6•1 year ago
https://github.com/CMahaff/lasim in case people are wondering
- Defiant ( @Defiant@lemmy.cafe ) 1•1 year ago
That makes a big difference for me knowing about that now. Thx :D
- guts ( @guts@lemmy.ml ) 24•1 year ago
The power of decentralization.
- gabe [he/him] ( @gabe@literature.cafe ) 18•1 year ago
I think it might be someone with a grudge…
It is, or at least partially… From what I understand a user(Lmao/Angled) was “sub-lemmy camping” (took up thousands of popular sub names and wasn’t doing anything with them) so lemmy world banned him from that instance. He had a hissy fit and “vowed revenge” and has been attempting to do as much damage to .world as he/they could since. I can’t find the original post but https://old.lemmy.world/post/943832 and https://old.lemmy.world/post/1720870 has a bit of detail.
Edit: added some info
- edric ( @scytale@lemm.ee ) 20•1 year ago
Imagine spending so much time doing something as pointless as that and spending even more time (and maybe money) throwing a hissy fit when things don’t go your way.
- SpiderShoeCult ( @SpiderShoeCult@sopuli.xyz ) 3•1 year ago
some people don’t advance beyond the toddler stage
- grte ( @grte@lemmy.ca ) 10•1 year ago
If this is accurate it’s particularly funny in light of the fact that every instance can have a community of a given name. It’s not taken for every instance once one instance makes a community of a particular name, haha.
- Blaze (he/him) ( @Blaze@sopuli.xyz ) 2•1 year ago
Interesting drama
- Fazoo ( @Fazoo@lemmy.ml ) 16•1 year ago
They don’t have a script for that.
- deFrisselle ( @deFrisselle@lemmy.sdf.org ) 11•1 year ago
Petty person doing petty things Just go forth and create communities across the instances SDF is pretty nice and has recently spun up a hand full of regional Lemmy instances
- ColdWater ( @ColdWater@lemmy.ca ) 9•1 year ago
From what I heard, the Lemmy.world ddoser got banned from the instance that’s why they ddosing it
- krimsonbun ( @KrimsonBun@lemmy.ml ) 8•1 year ago
“ah yes let me just publicly announce how they can hurt us more, that seems like a good idea”
- SomeRandomWords ( @SomeRandomWords@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 19•1 year ago
Can we consider this an open and obvious secret? They’re DDoSing that instance not because they think it’ll take everyone down, but because it’ll take down the most number of people with the least amount of effort.
it’s the muskrats. They’re not too bright.