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The funny thing about these DDos attacks on Lemmy World is that the hackers seem to forget that other instances exist. (lemmy.ml)
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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.

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[–] asteriskeverything@lemmy.world 27 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Oh that's why it keeps going down?! Lol what a dumb waste of time and effort.

I'm happy on .world and don't mind finding something else to do when it's down.

[–] Coreidan@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The hilarious part is they are probably paying to use some ddos service too.

[–] gigachad@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yep. You need to make a lot of requests to make a site go down, especially for a longer time. And for that you need a lot of computers. I doubt a lot of people have some sleeping bot nets available that they can use whenever a site admin was mean to them. DDOS as a paid service is pretty established nowadays, so imagine some guy investing his valuable buttcoins for this shit.