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
this post was submitted on 09 Aug 2023
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I made a kbin before I made a lemmy account. So when one stops working, switch to the other. Although I do like the apps for lemmy much more (sync).
Could also just make a Lemmy account on another instance?
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
How do you imagine them working if their home instance is down? You can only see the cache of old posts and your comments won't propagate outside your own instance. If LW is down, everything on LW is down effectively.
ActivityPub is an email inspired P2P-like protocol. Running communities over it is a hack.
Not in the way you think. Yes, you can still comment and post in your own instances version, but for other instances to see it it'll have to go through lemmy.world first and forwarded on. I think it's a bit murky when it comes to comment replies, though, I believe those do get propagated directly to the instance originating the comment (i.e. if a beehaw.org person comments and you reply, they get it sent directly), but you can see how disruptive it is.
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On the bright side, it makes people go to other instances instead of centralizing most the lemmy users on one big one
Yep, living this one myself today!
I think the bigger issue is many of the apps that are coming out (which imo would be the main point of entry for less techy users) point to lemmy.world as the default instance.
The lemmy network spreads out and gets better the more it is attacked. Perfectly antifragile
I'm pretty sure they only have beef with Lemmy.World for being banned from it.
That or they're running an instance and want people to leave here and join theirs. Would make sense for someone who wants to manipulate content and people, crush the popular instance and you're more likely to inherit those users.
I see a lot of people sticking to one instance. I try to use different ones to mix it up. Yes it’s annoying losing your subscriptions but every instance has a different vibe and community which I like
Using my own instance I guess if it's getting ddos'd I know someone's mad at me specifically lol
Yeah I’m using a smaller instance but love the vibe on smaller ones. I’m glad I can experience the growth of the fediverse.
There are scripts that let you import your subscriptions from other accounts.
That makes a big difference for me knowing about that now. Thx :D
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.
The hilarious part is they are probably paying to use some ddos service too.
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.
Those spam emails are obvious on purpose, so that all their responses are from the most gullible idiots.
Spam calls and interactive emails are, but phishing emails have nothing to lose from better design since they’re just collecting data. Some of them are actually pretty well done, to their credit.
The power of decentralization.
I think it might be someone with a grudge.....
It is, or at least partially... From what I understand a user(Lmao/Angled) was "sub-lemmy camping" (took up thousands of popular sub names and wasn't doing anything with them) so lemmy world banned him from that instance. He had a hissy fit and "vowed revenge" and has been attempting to do as much damage to .world as he/they could since. I can't find the original post but https://old.lemmy.world/post/943832 and https://old.lemmy.world/post/1720870 has a bit of detail.
Edit: added some info
Wow what a complete loser. Reddit mod behavior
If this is accurate it's particularly funny in light of the fact that every instance can have a community of a given name. It's not taken for every instance once one instance makes a community of a particular name, haha.
Oh that's juicy. It's like arch nemesis type stuff
Interesting drama
From what I heard, the Lemmy.world ddoser got banned from the instance that's why they ddosing it
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
Lemmy...world? Huh. I never saw an instance like that. 
I think the issue more ppl see with this is the communities there are now down also, not just not being able to login.
No worries, they're just being considerate by "preemptively saving" all hexbears from the inconvenience of experiencing constant outage every day.
Very considerate of them
Yeah, I usually just switch to sh.itjust.works but I've been looking at Kbin.social too.
We have cookies and the ability to block entire instances.
What kind of cookies?
oatmeal-raisin :(
My favorite part about oatmeal raisin cookies is that everyone else avoids them. So I eat the others first the same time everyone else is eating them, then I get an entire sleeve of oatmeal raisin to myself.
The only time oatmeal raisin is bad is when you're expecting chocolate chip, and even then, its still good.
I've had good oatmeal raisin cookies before...
Well, look at your user name.
Someone demolished the gingersnaps but there should still be a plate of chocolate chip and persistent HTTP floating around.