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lemmy.world had a DDOS in the past 24 hours, Lemmy.ml was showing problem, but now it is entirely unreachable. lemmy.world was showing "Error!" page (server still reachable), but that seems to have only lasted for a hour or so.

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I mean, this is one way to find the vulnerabilities in your system, I guess...

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

it could be anything related to the datacenter outage,server,dns,apache,nginx and so on...

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Ok so I have learned that it is always good to have a backup account or two if I am intent on getting my memes

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

lemm.ee has always been solid for me. At this point, I'm debating whether to just make it my primary instance instead.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Nice! I've more or less switched lemdro.id

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Same but it’s tough to keep favorites synced and blocks and filters.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

I wrote a tool that will help: https://github.com/CMahaff/lasim

Let's you copy your subs, blocks, and profile settings between Lemmy accounts.

You can run it as many times as you like and will keep adding new things.

At the minute it never removes things though, so you'd have to unsubscribe multiple places.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

True true. Hopefully some of the upcoming 3rd party apps can address some of the issues like this.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ya if they have cloud user data.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Cloud? I'm making one, and doing everything locally. Your phone can hold a small database - from there it's all data management. It's

I haven't started synching accounts yet, but it's in the works. Eventually, I want to do custom feeds and stitch feeds from multiple servers/accounts together

I neither want nor need your data though... It's harder to do it all on the device, but it's very doable

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

That’s what I just did. Also found a tool to subscribe me to all the communities.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Can you check again please?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

Lemmy.world also seems to be sporadically down.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

lemmy.world is back up now (I'm posting this on it). I'm looking forward to @Ruud posting a postmortem.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

wait, again??

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

This information clarified so much of this morning for me.

Was troubleshooting on my phone because I thought it was my kids using all the bandwidth for YouTube (kids)) and Roblox on a slower than normal Sunday.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Fuck you, Zuck & Musk, lick my taint

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

That feel when I miss all the fun in Australia because I was asleep

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Lemmy.world is now responding some at least, and some of the comments from remote servers came into this posting just now.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

.world is down as well right? fuck

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Well hey, my instance is small

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Lemmy.world is still hard to reach.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

World was down for me too in the last 10 minutes.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Lemmy.world down now for over 30 minutes, Lemmy.ml over an hour (I created this post on Lemmy.world before it went down). Distant Early Warning Sign: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrDj5XvZXX4

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It's weird, I can access Lemmy.world through sh.itjust.works but I can't log in. Are they updating maybe?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If you mean that you can see content from lemmy.world from sh.itjust.works, that might be stuff that federated over before lemmy.world went down.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

But aren't we talking and communicating on lemmy.world right now? Maybe I don't understand it correctly and we're communicating on sh.itjust.works even though it says lemmy.world.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Interesting, I didn't notice that this community was hosted on lemmy.world. Yeah, my understanding of how ActivityPub worked was that lemmy.world would have to act as a "relay" for these message to make it out, even though you're on sh.itjust.works and I'm on kbin.social. I could easily be wrong about that, or perhaps lemmy.world is managing to stay just functional enough in the background to keep traffic flowing.

Edit: Never mind, lemmy.world seems to be back up. I just visited their front page and it loaded fine.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I know there's a lemmy.world support community, I'll try and see if they know what's going on.

Edit: ~~On your edit, I still can't log in and it's acting the same as it was before.~~ Nvmd, it's just slow to load.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You're on sh.itjust.works

This community is hosted on lemmy.world, but it doesn't disappear if lemmy.world goes down.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes, but we're communicating on it where? If lemmy.world is down, why can we interact with each other, where is the info being stored?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

@pelespirit @Madbrad200

The comments/posts stay in your local instance until the lemmy.world will be up again and then it will sychronise via ActivityPub again.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm not on works or world, but I see your 4m old comment. Maybe it works like file sharing where there are seeds and peers? And without seeds, we can still see some content?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Your instance is federated with those instances, so you see his content. Thats really all there is too it. He was able to comment since world is back up now

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Well that makes more sense. That explains how you can see beehaw.org stuff and even comment but they never get updated. I think I might be understanding this stuff a little now, thanks.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

lemmy.world is reachable, but no database connections, it has an "Error" page on every post I try to load. Which this post itself on Lemmy.world serves as example: https://lemmy.world/post/1578844

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sorry, not very techy, what does this mean?

lemmy.world is reachable, but no database connections,

Does that mean he's being attacked again?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

most likely, yes. There was no notice of a planned outage, and the timing of them both going down within 15 minutes of each other. Lemmy server programming code isn't very robust when it comes to performance, it is possible to busy up the database to a point that the site become unresponsive. I don't know what is going on with lemmy.ml being entirely unreachable, the devs who run that server don't normally work on weekends... and normally nginx responds with an error at minimum. Nothing at all is loading

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Beehaw.org was down for over 30 minutes, came back for 15 minutes, now down again another 30 minutes.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Well... there has to be something lemmy does right I guess

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

6 hours down for lemmy.ml is really going to have a lot of items queued on lemmy.world, beehaw, and other popular servers to delivery to lemmy.ml - causing resources to climb on all those servers.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

looks like lemmy will be getting Cloudflare support soon

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How did you make that Title?!

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Why tf aren’t they using Cloudflare for DDoS protection? The site isn’t run for-profit so it would be covered under the free tier. My homelab is proxied through Cloudflare and would be able to handle an attack better than this.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I wonder what happens to posts made to lemmy.ml communities when it comes back up, will they sync to other instances?

https://lemmy.world/post/1578635

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

https://sh.itjust.works/ is returning "Server error" on all pages, not sure how long that has been going on.
apparently over 45 minutes so far: https://lemmy.world/post/1604919

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