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 @sunaurus@lemm.ee 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@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1351·
    1 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.

  • Archmage Azor@lemmy.world
    594·
    1 year ago

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

  • AlmightySnoo 🐢🇮🇱🇺🇦@lemmy.world
    314·
    1 year ago

    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@lemmy.world
        33·
        1 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.

      • fedcon@lemm.ee
        11·
        1 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@lemmy.world
    17·
    1 year ago

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

    • GONADS125@lemmy.world
      61·
      1 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@lemmy.world
      116·
      1 year ago

      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.

    • GONADS125@lemmy.world
      2·
      1 year ago

      Wouldn’t surprise me honestly, but these have been going on since before the hexbear announcement. I would say it’s rather convenient timing, but in reality these attacks have been very frequent so it is likely a coincidence. I’d wager more on the alt-right neonazis from exploding heads being the responsible party.

      • woelkchen@lemmy.world
        4·
        1 year ago

        I’d wager more on the alt-right neonazis from exploding heads being the responsible party.

        Putin has both the far-right and pseudo-communists in his pocket to be part of his evangelization troll army. There’s no much difference between the camps, just the coat they wear.