There was another attack going on (as you might have noticed). We’re working on a fix. In the meantime, we’ve blocked the listing of comments, so we at least aren’t down, but it did break comments.

Hope to have a fix in the next hour. Stay tuned!

Update OK we’ve implemented a fix, again many thanks to @[email protected] for his assistance. This will prevent the outages we’ve seen last couple of days. Let’s see what they will come up with next…

  • Bleeping Lobster
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    1481 year ago

    I’m sure it must be frustrating to have to deal with these attacks, but in a sense they’re a signifier of how popular / successful this instance is.

    Thanks for all the work you do on it, Ruud.

    • @0xeb
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      351 year ago

      Also the more attacks there are the more vulnerabilities found and get fixed. I think in the long run it helps the platform to mature and be more stable.

      • @samus12345
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        The script kiddies are unpaid QA testers.

  • Archmage Azor
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    601 year ago

    I’m getting kinda tired of these attacks. Is some loser from 4chan not getting enough attention from mommy?

    • TheSaneWriter
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      271 year ago

      Something like that, or potentially some jerk with a knack for technology who’s decided to use their abilities to be an ass.

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        • @NOT_RICK
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          51 year ago

          Hexbear was just defederated so that could have something to do with it

          • @Leyla
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            101 year ago

            Hexbear wasn’t federated to begin with.

            • @NOT_RICK
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              51 year ago

              Yeah, but they were planning on it and I could see the block leading to some sour grapes

              • @icyjiub
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                21 year ago

                It’s almost like people so online as to be proud to call themselves “tankies” (yet whine when people call them that) were literally planning to brigade and shit post.

                I’m pretty damn left wing, but these people consider listening to podcasts and taking over the mod teams of subreddits to be revolutionary praxis.

            • @NOT_RICK
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            • Dark Arc
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              91 year ago

              A very pro-communist instance was blocked from interacting with all of Lemmy.world.

              • Buelldozer
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                21 year ago

                Communists mad about Free Association? Say it ain’t so!

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                • @NOT_RICK
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                  31 year ago

                  I don’t think anyone is disagreeing that it’s the admins’ right to block hexbear, I was just pointing out that may have led to this attack. Only speculation though

  • izzent
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    281 year ago

    You won’t see this, but thanks for working on the fix!

  • AlmightySnoo 🐢🇮🇱🇺🇦
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    The attack today was wild, someone kept hammering lemmy.world for like 4~5 hours straight. Where do the attacks come from? Maybe also report to law enforcement? (even though practically speaking the chances that they are going to do something about it are very slim)

    Hexbear started making a big deal out of the defederation by lemmy.world today on their instance and it’s possible that their script kiddies might have felt the need to retaliate.

      • @raspberriesareyummy
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        01 year ago

        For real… especially since the “problems with comments” are really convenient for the Mods who seem to be censoring the opposition they are getting to the hexbear defederation left & right - my absolutely civil disagreements were just deleted.

  • gmtom
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    211 year ago

    This is why I have a couple different fediverse accounts

    • @Deftdrummer
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      41 year ago

      You mean Lemmy? Or do I not get it still…

      • fedcon
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        111 year ago

        Lemmy is a part of the fediverse.

        The OP has a kbin account, which is something akin to Lemmy. But they can comment here because both kbin and lemmy are a part of the fediverse and therefore are interoperable.

        But within lemmy itself, you can also have accounts on different instances too! E.g. my account is on lemm.ee, while yours is on lemmy.world. Both servers are a part of Lemmy, but act separately, and are interoperable!

        Think of it like email.
        Kbin is like gmail.com, lemmy is like outlook.com. Users on gmail can send and receive emails from outlook, and vice versa.
        Now think of lemm.ee as outlook.co.uk, and lemmy.world as outlook.co.ca.

        I hope this clarifies stuff a bit!

  • @DandomRude
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    181 year ago

    Why would you attack Lemmy in the first place? I guess it’s probably because you can for some wierd people.

    • GONADS125
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      51 year ago

      Really ramped up after the alt-right extremists on exploding heads were defederated from. There was also turmoil yesterday with the announcement that lemmy.world won’t federate with hexbear, and a lot of the users of that instance employ some shady tactics to influence and astroturf. Or it could just be some dumb troll. Who knows?..

    • @The_v
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      1. Because their mommy was mean to them today - (told them to take a shower).

      2. Because their hot pockets burned their mouths.

      3. Because they have a micropenis.

      4. Because they see themselves as helping make the site better.

      • @tool
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        21 year ago

        D. All of the above

  • @rabbit_wren
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    151 year ago

    Thank you for letting us know!

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  • @Jackthelad
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    81 year ago

    Why don’t these people go and do something useful, like play in traffic?

  • TheSaneWriter
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    71 year ago

    The comments still seem to be generating, so I’m able to see them. Great work on your instance @[email protected], you’re handling your tenure as Lemmy’s largest instance extremely well!