Comment on Why is serveral instances down simultaneously? Is it just me?
OverfedRaccoon@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Not saying it was a coordinated attack, per your edit, but anything popular is a prime target for various types of attacks, especially DDoS… But with every attack, the developers and various admins and owners of instances learn something new and how to mitigate it. So while it’s annoying, it’s just as much a blessing as a curse - better to patch things quick than leave an exploitable hole open for who knows how long.
Linuturk@lemmy.onitato.com 1 year ago
I run my own single user instance, and it was down as well. Not sure why someone would target a single user instance. Not ruling it out, but it seems unlikely.
ApathyTree@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
I’m thinking about doing this for making my main account, since I never look at my local feed anyway.
How’s the experience? And do you know of a good starting point?
Linuturk@lemmy.onitato.com 1 year ago
The experience is pretty good except for discoverability of new communities. My Subscribed and All feeds are the same. I started with the official local development docker-compose file and massaged it into place for my setup.
ApathyTree@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
Ah, yeah that could be problematic. Maybe I’ll hold off until accounts can be migrated, and port this one over to expand the content. Start subbing to everything I even tangentially like 😅. Tho maybe they will fix the discoverability issue - sounds like it happens kinda a lot.
Thanks for replying!
mrmanager@lemmy.today 1 year ago
All instances using federation are publicly visible and it’s simple to script attacking all of us.