Every time I try to access this community, ther’s some kind of problem with the server. If you have a look at the status page, it’s almost all orange/red.
The problem aren’t DDoS attack since the server is behind Cloudflare protection.
Admin/mods, why don’t you move this community to a different server instance?
I’m not accusing anybody, I know that maintain a server can be a challenging sometimes, I just want to enjoy this community!
Please!
@Loki
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The problem is DDoS attacks. See: https://lemmy.world/post/2923697
But isn’t Cloudflare supposed to block those attacks?
Cloudflare DDos protection isn’t a silver bullet; the attacks are distributed and come from shifting source IPs, and are sophisticated in that they exploit resource intensive queries specifically designed to overload a Lemmy instance. If lemmy.world were to pivot to some other instance, who’s to say the culprits wouldn’t just resume their efforts pointed at the new location? There are theories these may be carried out by the recently-defederated fringe hate communities
Cloudflare has DDoS protection but it can’t stop everything 100% of the time. According to the admins, the attackers are very familiar with how lemmy works and are using this knowledge to overwhelm resources. This isn’t just a simple script kiddy or bonnet for hire but likely points to someone that has worked within the lemmy community.
https://www.cloudflare.com/learning/ddos/what-is-a-ddos-attack/
https://www.cloudflare.com/learning/ddos/glossary/web-application-firewall-waf/
From what I understand, Cloudflare can block some DDoS attacks, but not all of them.
The attacks on Lemmy have to do with poorly optimized SQL requests; these are requests that shouldn’t take long to execute, but do due to some oversight. By spamming these requests, the attackers can bring Lemmy on it’s knees.
Actually, wouldn’t this attack better be categorized as a DoS attack ? What’s so distributed about it ?
ADMIN, isn’t it time to move from lemmy.world?
They said, from their lemmy.world account.
just a user of an instance saying things about that instance - I would find the opposite weird.
What’s wrong with that? I’ve started here some months ago and I mainly follow this community.
Because you could go to another instance and the people who like it here would stay on this instance. You sound like you have an agenda but none of us have slightest idea of what that would be.
I actually didn’t think about it.Icm on Lemmy, but I’m not a Lemmy specialist so I didn’t know that I could go to a different instance and access this communit indirectly. Thanks
P.s. I didn’t get the agenda part.
No problem, I’m glad you understand now. It sounds like it was a misunderstanding.
P.s. I didn’t get the agenda part.
Unknown people are trying to shut down Lemmy.world with ddos attacks and this seemed like you were unknowingly agreeing with them. I didn’t want to assume you didn’t understand lemmy and you were trying to shut it down in your wording, so I think we all were scratching our heads too.
I wish lemmy.world a bright future, otherwise I wouldn’t have created my profile here…
Thanks for the clarification!
I don’t think you’ve read this yet, but you can sign up for many instances at once so if lemmy.world is down, you can go to the other instance immediately by either going to your alternate instance’s home page, or having an app like liftoff where it lets you switch immediately in your profile. Liftoff is open source and free as well. That way, you don’t have to leave Lemmy.world, just have a backup if it’s down. I highly suggest this route, I have 4 backup instances, some with the same name but I like world the best since it seems the most like reddit.
I find this comment section a prime example of dickish hivemind seething over nothing.
There’s a dude, obviously quite fresh in the ways of Mastodon. He probably doesn’t realize all the nuts & bolts supporting the system and how it all works. He is asking a question that is logical, but it needs clarification, like “it doesn’t work like this, my man”.
Instead he gets “Hsssssssssssssss, selfhost it, hsssssssssssssssssssss, interloper, hsssssssssssssssssss, you want to destroy this place, hssssssssssssssss…”
Get a life, eejits.
Thanks! As you, I thought that this was a community to share thought and knowledge. In fact a couple of guys here pointed out that I could solve my problem accessing this community in another instance, not in the better way, but at least that was helpful!
Yeah. It’s good that there are users who actually take time to explain some stuff, rather than just hissssssss like rabid vipers merely because somebody - oh no, what a preposterous idea! - asked a harmless question.
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