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My guess, some loveless planarian with a botnet felt they didn't get enough attention from mommy and decided to hit .world with a couple DDOS attacks.
One claim is DDOS attacks, another claim is that the servers are too small for the massive amount of people that recently adopted lemmy
I'd love to know which is true just because .. . . it's fun to know details
Massive amounts of organic traffic to too small a server technically is a DDOS, even if unintentional rather than malicious. So, both to varying degrees, probably?
It's DDOS. The admins for World have explicitly said so, and even said exactly how the attacks have been perpetrated by exploiting calls that require a lot of processing time to overload the server.
They were getting hit with a lot of DDoS attacks a week or two ago, that may still be going on. Also they took off faster than most instances so a lot of this is just growing pains.
many people have been bailing from the server
That's not a bad thing, the content is shared between instances so you can get it on the other sites too. People going to other sites will hopefully help balance the load and possibly help with the growing pains. I haven't created an account on another instance yet, but I've been visiting other instances when .world goes down.
Growing pains. It's ok we'll pull through.
Worse then that.
Theyre more then three times the size of the next lemmy instance which creates an attack surface.
4 hours to post this?
DDOS? Cloudflare is supposed to stop that. I see a lot of cloudflare errors.
lemmy world status shows 292 instances in the past 8 days! Elevated response times and system resources repeated endlessly.
Insufficient RAM and CPU are my main suspicion due to explosive growth. Parts aren't cheap but are needed.
How can we help with funding?
Subscriptions? - NO. This is not a commercial endeavour.
Donations? - Maybe. One off donations with no further commitment. Obviously, donate again if you want to.
Go Fund Me? - Possible but who sets it up. Possible fraud?
I left because of the executive decision to defederate from hexbear.
Thinking about doing the same. Which instance did you go to?
I put an application in to unilem.org (because of their non-censorship stance) and I'm using lemm.ee in the meantime.
I'm sure there'll be plenty of others who do the same. Really odd decision.
I've hopped to another server due to the abysmal uptime of late. I'll continue checking in though. I know they're working on adding sysops so I'm sure things will improve.
I wish the admins would come out and give an update as to what is going on.
I wish I could migrate my account to another instance.
You can, sort of.
Use LASIM to download your subbed communities next time lemmy.world is up. Make a new account on another instance. Upload your communities to the new account with LASIM.
Unfortunately, posts/comments don't go - but you can do like me and just leave a trail between your accounts (if you care enough). I just link to and from my old/new accounts in the bio each time I make one. It's a little janky, but it works - and it's better than waiting hours for lemmy.world to be up for 12 minutes before going down again.
I'm gonna save this reply thanks!
Whats LASIM though?
Lemmy Account Settings Instance Migrator
It's a tool that basically just allows you to download a list of communities you're subscribed to, which is good to have as a backup if your instance ever goes down.
There's also an upload option for if you make a new account someplace else, which can take that backup of your communities and subscribe the new account to all of them automatically, rather than starting from scratch.
https://github.com/CMahaff/lasim/releases/tag/v0.2.1 download the relevant zip and export your Lemmy.world stuff, you can then import it to any other Lemmy instance.
There is a status page that tracks the downtime, it's not totally detailed but gives a bit of information about the problem they're dealing with. The last 2 days of logs are particularly bad 14+ hrs of partial downtime.
Also another thread on the topic : https://lemmy.world/post/2856311
It's in [email protected] , named "When you notice Lemmy is quieter than usual, then have a look at the Lemmy.world status"