If they're trying to attack all of Lemmy, or the whole Fediverse, they're doing it wrong. lol
It's like obvious spam emails that put no effort into appearing legitimate. You have the spirit of it, but your heart is in the wrong place.
Because of the unfortunate centralisation that's happened, with so many people being directed to lemmy.world or choosing to go there, a big DDoS attack on world would disrupt a lot of communities that people on other instances use. It's in everyone's interests to spread the load more, which is why I find it sad when some communities migrate to world. UnixPorn was one, although it was already on lemmy.ml which is a larger instance too
Yeah, there's so many communities on world that even if you're on another instance, a good chunk of content just isn't available.
Don't the communities work even while the instance is down?
I suppose modding them while down would be an issue
On the bright side, it makes people go to other instances instead of centralizing most the lemmy users on one big one
No worries, they're just being considerate by "preemptively saving" all hexbears from the inconvenience of experiencing constant outage every day.
From what I heard, the Lemmy.world ddoser got banned from the instance that's why they ddosing it
"ah yes let me just publicly announce how they can hurt us more, that seems like a good idea"
Can we consider this an open and obvious secret? They're DDoSing that instance not because they think it'll take everyone down, but because it'll take down the most number of people with the least amount of effort.
Petty person doing petty things Just go forth and create communities across the instances SDF is pretty nice and has recently spun up a hand full of regional Lemmy instances
