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Lemmy.world is down because of a DDOS attack
Lemmy.world is down because of a DDOS attack
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Someone is really out to get lemmy.world lately.
I feel like with every update there is at least one attack.
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We're having fun and trying to build a positive space. And we have real potential to succeed in growing large. Can you think of a single faster way to attract trolling on the internet?
It's a lot more likely than someone like spez taking a break from plundering his company to piss off a modest number of internet randos in some internet corner somewhere, which would barely be a drop in the bucket of his problem anyway.
The overall effect of this is so small, it almost has to be someone(s) with too much time on their hands. If they had any kind of real power, they wouldn't be wasting their time on these chump change attacks.
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Honestly, decentralized social media are probably bad news for the current state of the art of disinformation campaigns. The bullshit that has been thriving on Facebook and Twitter is not only a chorus of bigoted aunts and uncles, but (perhaps more importantly) a coordinated attack from state sponsored troll farms seeking, among other things, to destabilise Western democracies.
The fediverse is, by design, less vulnerable to these attacks. Your trolls can generate activity around your disinformation content all they want: if nobody I follow boosts it, it's not going to show up in my Mastodon feed. And you can feel free to recreate r/conservative or whatever in the fediverse, but if it becomes a cesspool like on Reddit you'll be stuck with your trolls talking to each other on a defederated instance with no-one listening. Disinformation strategies currently employed successfully on centralized social media platforms are likely to fail here, causing a problem for bad actors.
It is probably paranoid to think there's any geopolitical actor behind the current attack, but I fully expect the fediverse to become under attack from Russian troll farms as soon as they realize they're no longer reaching out to people on Twitter, Reddit or Facebook.
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Maybe it was their refusal to take a stance on Meta and Threads? The admins of .ml said it took them 2 minutes to decide to preemptively defederate. .World on the other hand came to an anti-corporate platform and publicly took a position that they would wait and see about federation with Meta.
It's like saying "power to the people and viva revolution but we are also remaining open to licking boot depending on the circumstances."
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it's one of the biggest instances, not really surprising that bad actors are targeting it
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Drat, someone really doesn't like lemmy.world and how active it became.
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Big target. Either that or the butt wipe that was denied his Reddit username and started creating random long manned communities.
I just sort of assumed we’d all get accounts in 2-3 instances so if one goes down we can still participate elsewhere.
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Thanks for the update. Was wondering why I was having issues logging in.
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Someone is really out to get lemmy.world lately.
I feel like with every update there is at least one attack.
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maybe that dude with the mass random communities name
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Wasn't that the person that hacked a few instances a week or two ago? @[email protected]
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Also the other instance I was using ... vlemmy.net ... has been down for like a week now. I wonder if it's completely done for?
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Logged on from Lemmy.world through voyager to see if this comment posts…
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Looks like lemmy.world is back up. vlemmy.net is still down.
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vlemmy.net has been down for a week or two at this point and the admins took down their donation links. I think it’s safe to say they’re not coming back.
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F
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I wonder who is behind this and what's the intention.
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Speznaz, probably. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
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I have also had problems with my lemmy.ml account. Maybe the same attack??
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