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Why is Lemmy World down? (lemmy.ml)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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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€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I honestly forgot what the first D was at that moment lol. While I agree it technically can be done pretty badly without distributed attacks. I read in the past couple of years of an approach attackers used was to make an application DOS itself from a single request. I think it required a vulnerability in the application in this instance though.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Twitter did this recently lol