It was my fault. Happened shorty after I joined lemmy. Sorry everyone.
There’s a really large DDOS attack going on right now.
Lemmy could be getting caught up in it, somehow.
Yikes!
Cloudflare has said it recently successfully stopped the largest distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack ever recorded. The attack reached 22.2 terabits per second and 10.6 billion packets per second, setting a new world record.
Holy shit. But it lasted only 40 seconds… This smell like a field test for something worse.
Might be, yes. But that suuurely cost a fuckton of money.
When isn’t there one going?
I mean, yes, but this one is really huge. I think it’s in the trillions of source nodes, if I understand the blurb I saw about it.
“Somehow”… seems to be caused by using centralized MitM Clownflare that supposedly protects against DDOS 🙄
We were getting DDoS’d by a bunch of South American IPs (mostly Brazilian) from maybe 18 hours ago.
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Seems better now
I mean, i don’t use those other istances so maybe is just a coincidence.
Occam’s Razor says AI
No, that’s what the common prejudices about the popular whipping boy of the moment says.
Is just heavy traffic?
that is ddos in a nutshell, but people are speculating the causes
What’s Ralph Bakshi gotta do with it?
My money is on heavy scraping.
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