When you notice Lemmy is quieter than usual, then have a look at the Lemmy.world status - Lemmy
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Seems like they are under attack again, will those people never stop? I feel sorry for the admin team.

We're getting scapegoated for the DDOS attack that affected us too yesterday, all because @Tankiedesantski@hexbear.net made one (admittedly kinda funny) joke here.

Normally I wouldn't post petty internet bullshit like this but I thought our admins should know.

Edit: Entire thread is a gold mine for dunk tank material tho

Edit2: Now the Spook of @Alaskaball@hexbear.net is getting namedropped

Edit3: So after some digging (read: 5 mins browsing lemmy instances) another user made this post saying the attacker was someone with a personal beef with .world completely unrelated to us? Documented methodology of attack is different but similar to the spam bot we got hit with too, but idk I'm just amateur hour here not an OpSec pro.

Edit4: I was trying to click on the links provided in that post to double check but lemmy.world went down data-laughing

Edit5: Official Statement

So who is attacking us? One thing that is clear is that those responsible of these attacks know the ins and outs of Lemmy. They know which database requests are the most taxing and they are always quick to find another as soon as we close one off. That’s one of the only things we know for sure about our attackers. Being the biggest instance and having defederated with a couple of instances has made us a target.

Damn, I never knew what it was like to live somewhere rent-free until now

  • pooh [she/her, any]
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    11 months ago

    the general consensus is that we literally do not care that they de federated from us.

    Eh, I think it’s pretty obnoxious and annoying, especially when there is zero reason for doing so. They defederated based on their own red-scare anxiety and nothing else, then unfairly maligned us to try to justify it.

    • PorkrollPosadist [he/him, they/them]M
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      11 months ago

      That's really it. They could have blocked us and said something like "we don't want our feeds to be full of low effort shitposts." It's the fucking lies that make them giant douchebags. Then you get the fucking Reddit nerds playing lawyerball who claim we brigaded that thread to push back against the lies, when even according to the rules on Reddit, communities are allowed to participate in threads about them.

      • ImOnADiet@lemmygrad.ml
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        11 months ago

        It’s exactly this for me as well, beehaw originally defederated from lemmygrad way back before the reddit-logo exodus was even a dream (IIRC, it was over a year ago) due to some bs about lemmygrad being too active and filling up their server space, in actuality they had a setting wrong, but then when they fixed it they never refederated. Then, a couple months ago, they made some post that said that they werent defederated from any instance for political views, but for “hate-speech”. Made my blood boil to see a group of smug racist shitlibs accuse us of hatespeech (presumably because we use cracker?)

        Edit: here’s my original rant from a couple months back lol https://lemmygrad.ml/post/714337?scrollToComments=true

    • Zuzak [fae/faer, she/her]
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      11 months ago

      At first it was frustrating but the degree to which they showed their whole ass trying to justify it made it funny.