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@lemmy.sdf.org
    105·
    11 months 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@kbin.social
      262·
      11 months 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).

    • flameguy21English
      19·
      11 months 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.

      • OtakuAltairEnglish
        6·
        11 months ago

        Don’t the communities work even while the instance is down?

        I suppose modding them while down would be an issue

        • Aux@lemmy.world
          7·
          11 months ago

          How do you imagine them working if their home instance is down? You can only see the cache of old posts and your comments won’t propagate outside your own instance. If LW is down, everything on LW is down effectively.

          ActivityPub is an email inspired P2P-like protocol. Running communities over it is a hack.

        • jcg@halubilo.social
          7·
          11 months 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.

        • Echo Dot@feddit.uk
          32·
          11 months 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.

    • Meowoem@sh.itjust.works
      32·
      11 months ago

      Yeah it would be really interesting if it was possible to have a merged community across several instances, like you sub to super community and it gets the information from one of the linked instances and when they’re up they all keep synchronised.

      If your instance went down you couldn’t log on but if you could switch to another account on a different instance and access the same major communities - then when that instance comes back it catches up.

    • jcg@halubilo.social
      3·
      11 months ago

      I think the bigger issue is many of the apps that are coming out (which imo would be the main point of entry for less techy users) point to lemmy.world as the default instance.

  • jack@monero.town
    41·
    11 months ago

    The lemmy network spreads out and gets better the more it is attacked. Perfectly antifragile

  • asteriskeverything@lemmy.world
    37·
    11 months ago

    Oh that’s why it keeps going down?! Lol what a dumb waste of time and effort.

    I’m happy on .world and don’t mind finding something else to do when it’s down.

      • gigachad@feddit.de
        1·
        11 months ago

        Yep. You need to make a lot of requests to make a site go down, especially for a longer time. And for that you need a lot of computers. I doubt a lot of people have some sleeping bot nets available that they can use whenever a site admin was mean to them. DDOS as a paid service is pretty established nowadays, so imagine some guy investing his valuable buttcoins for this shit.

    • extant@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11·
      11 months ago

      That or they’re running an instance and want people to leave here and join theirs. Would make sense for someone who wants to manipulate content and people, crush the popular instance and you’re more likely to inherit those users.

  • Defiant@lemmy.cafe
    34·
    11 months 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

    • thrawn@lemmy.world
      2·
      11 months ago

      Spam calls and interactive emails are, but phishing emails have nothing to lose from better design since they’re just collecting data. Some of them are actually pretty well done, to their credit.

    • Rocketpoweredgorilla@kbin.social
      41·
      11 months ago

      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
        28·
        11 months 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.

      • grte@lemmy.ca
        13·
        11 months 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.

  • ColdWater@lemmy.ca
    17·
    11 months ago

    From what I heard, the Lemmy.world ddoser got banned from the instance that’s why they ddosing it

  • deFrisselle@lemmy.sdf.org
    13·
    11 months 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

  • krimsonbun@lemmy.ml
    122·
    11 months ago

    “ah yes let me just publicly announce how they can hurt us more, that seems like a good idea”

    • SomeRandomWords@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      22·
      11 months 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.