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Why do the instances keep going down? It makes me think that this is not a reliable social network, but the alternatives are not as good.

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[โ€“] seang96@spgrn.com 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

DDOS = denial of service attack. Attacker sends a bunch of requests overloading a service and causing other clients to experience.timeouts due to the service not being.abe.to.handle the load.

[โ€“] Konlanx@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

It's like a group of people standing in line for the cashier and they each buy a single peanut with cash and have a question to the manager.

I like that picture, it makes it easier to understand for people who aren't that much into computers.