What has been up with lemmy.world lately?

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• ganksy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Growing pains. It’s ok we’ll pull through.

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  • Quill0@lemmy.digitalfall.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Worse then that.

    Theyre more then three times the size of the next lemmy instance which creates an attack surface.

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• PaulDevonUK@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  4 hours to post this?

  DDOS? Cloudflare is supposed to stop that. I see a lot of cloudflare errors.

  lemmy world status shows 292 instances in the past 8 days! Elevated response times and system resources repeated endlessly.

  Insufficient RAM and CPU are my main suspicion due to explosive growth. Parts aren’t cheap but are needed.

  How can we help with funding?

  Subscriptions? - NO. This is not a commercial endeavour.

  Donations? - Maybe. One off donations with no further commitment. Obviously, donate again if you want to.

  Go Fund Me? - Possible but who sets it up. Possible fraud?

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• Blamemeta@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  How do you tell a ddos from legitimate traffic?

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  • Reborn2966@feddit.it ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    that’s the neat part, you don’t.

    or at least, not easily.

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  • lechatron@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It’s like a fun* little cat and mouse game, you figure out the patterns to block specific traffic, then they adapt and you start again. I even saw some users comment the other day they were being hit with false positives and blocked because the blocking was too aggressive. Fortunately there are companies that specialize in this kind of stuff like cloudflare. But that costs money so it wasn’t added until just recently, so it’s possible attacks are still getting around that.

    *obnoxious

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  • squiblet@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Various clues, like what URLs they are requesting, what IPs/regions it's from, if it appears to be real clients based on user agent and ability to execute javascript, and so on.

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• Countmacula@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Really sucks that some dummies would attack lemmy like this.

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  • Deftdrummer@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Yeah I’m just trying to watch cat vids and those dank memes

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• ieightpi@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I wish the admins would come out and give an update as to what is going on.

  I wish I could migrate my account to another instance.

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  • OverfedRaccoon@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    You can, sort of. Use LASIM to download your subbed communities next time lemmy.world is up. Make a new account on another instance. Upload your communities with LASIM.

    Unfortunately, posts/comments don’t go - but you can do like me and just leave a trail between your accounts (if you care enough). I just link to my old account in the bio of each new one I make.

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    • ieightpi@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I’m gonna save this reply thanks!

      Whats LASIM though?

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  • lechatron@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    There is a status page that tracks the downtime, it’s not totally detailed but gives a bit of information about the problem they’re dealing with. The last 2 days of logs are particularly bad 14+ hrs of partial downtime.

    lemmy-world.statuspage.io

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• schwim@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I’ve hopped to another server due to the abysmal uptime of late. I’ll continue checking in though. I know they’re working on adding sysops so I’m sure things will improve.

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• Blaze@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Also another thread on the topic : lemmy.world/post/2856311

  It’s in !fediverse@lemmy.world , named “When you notice Lemmy is quieter than usual, then have a look at the Lemmy.world status”

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