Lemmy.world is down because of a DDOS attack

Someone is really out to get lemmy.world lately.

I feel like with every update there is at least one attack.

This is a shame. Hosting a high visibility server is no joke, and I don't envy the admins and the very difficult work they do. It's simultaneously an argument for and against decentralization. For - a single instance can get knocked out without talking out the whole fediverse. Against - it seems as though high visibility communities are potentially fairly easy to target and take down.

I think that decentralization wins out here in the end, but it does feel like there may be a need for some sort of fallback mechanism to be in place at an instance/community level. I suspect this might evolve somehow over time. It would require some way to expand trust between instances and or portability of communities (which could be fraught with user trust/data integrity issues).

If things don't evolve it could grow into a whack-a-mole game for bad actors, or there might need to be more investment into server infrastructure (which could work against decentralization if only because of economies of scale).

Or maybe there's no issue after all? I'm just imagining potential implications of a scaling fediverse - it's fascinating and exciting stuff!

Thoughts?

Thanks for the update. Was wondering why I was having issues logging in.

Drat, someone really doesn't like lemmy.world and how active it became.

Also the other instance I was using ... vlemmy.net ... has been down for like a week now. I wonder if it's completely done for?

Someone is really out to get lemmy.world lately.

I feel like with every update there is at least one attack.

No doubt Threads-related...

Quite a few people on here really go off-the-rails when it comes to .world not coming out and outright blocking it before it's a thing. (while also forgetting it affects Mastodon, and not-so-much Lemmy)

Logged on from Lemmy.world through voyager to see if this comment posts…

I have also had problems with my lemmy.ml account. Maybe the same attack??

Looks like lemmy.world is back up. vlemmy.net is still down.

I wonder who is behind this and what's the intention.