In the past two weeks, the site has been very unstable, sometimes for one second a page would load and the next it wouldn’t load at all. The status of lemmy.world would fluctuate a lot on lemmy-status.org, and there have times where the site has been down for hours.
There have been numerous ddos attacks etc on the site recently. Rudd, the operator has been very forthcoming with information.
Where can I find this information?
c/lemmyworld is where he makes announcements
DDOS attacks
Didn’t they also say that there were other kinds of attacks being used as well, not just DDoS I may be remembering wrong but I feel like I heard one of the admins say something about a database related attack where they overloaded the database with download requests or something like that.
Could be, I’ll look into that
It’s been under attack from malicious actors, some DDoS, some database related (they overload the database with download requests). Likely because lemmy.world is one of the largest instances and they figure they can cause the most damage by attacking this one.
I would guess that its due to the rapidly rising number of Users.
And attacks…
Fucking assholes ruin everything
…which stem from the large userbase making it an attractive target.
Ok, who’s attacking?
