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EDIT: TBC, here's the current message seen when refreshing a PF stream:
"Piefed.social is having a denial of service attack. They are being kept at bay for now but could return with a more effective method. Download your community subscriptions so if you need to move to another server it’ll be painless - with a few clicks you’ll be seeing all the same content as before. See list of alternate servers at here or here."
Possible causes?
- Fellow instance that got PO'd somehow? (seems like a major stretch)
- Just random hackers havin' fun?
- Reddit or similar, targeting one of the top growing instance softwares in ActivityPub / FV? EDIT2 : the timing certainly seems to fit for the recent influx of users coming from Reddit. (see comments)
- Some right-wing entity, not happy about the general rational / left bias to the instance?
- Other..?
In any case, much thanks to our instance runner and dev for fending off the first wave(!) Hope everything is backed up and possible to be restored if the worst happens.
(seriously, what a shitty way to be repaid for doing a great, ongoing job for the community and FOSS)
Seems accessible to me (Europe)
Top of the PF.S stream:
Piefed.social is having a denial of service attack. They are being kept at bay for now but could return with a more effective method. Download your community subscriptions so if you need to move to another server it’ll be painless - with a few clicks you’ll be seeing all the same content as before. See list of alternate servers at here or here.
Sounds a bit concerning to me.
very intermittent for me. I think swell of new users like me + corporate interference to a new competitor
DDOS is a very specific kind of attack, as I understand it, involving overwhelming a server with rubbish packets.
Its a type of attack. Use malware infected computers (botnet) to flood servers woth fake requests. Its a networking traffic jam, where each car has been mind controlled into blocking the route by a nefarious actor. Could be a company paying someone, could be a lone hacker, could be north korea, russia, a wayward child genius, some MIT students making a point. Who knows? Not me. But ddos doesnt just happen randomly, someone has to hit the button. So could be a ddos or just loads of new users creating the jam or ai scrapers. I dont know. I wouldnt be surprised if a few unscrupulous companies want to nip this decentralised threat to their business model in the bud. But then I wouldnt be surprised if a relatively small "site" is just suffering because its user base has doubled in 3 days.
"Yup" to just about all that, altho note that the dev / instance runner himself ID'd it as a DDOS attack.
Really? That might explain why my communities' subscriber base took off this week. Do you know what happened to double the base?
Effective reddit advertising
Beautiful. Know where that happened?
BuyfromCanada, Degoogle, buyfromEU
Im here from boyfromeu
Clever; going under the radar a bit.
Come to think of it, that might explain the attack.
Yeah, it's probably related to some recent marketing success.
I highly doubt it's anything more conspiratorial than some random guy in the social class sometimes referred to as "average redditor" who decided to see what he could do to fuck with people. Not all that much by the looks of it, I didn't notice any instability at all.
Might be that it was caught early, or that it varied in severity and time distribution. We'd need some specific tools trained on the site to know for sure. But given the seriousness of the announcement, I'm not convinced it was just a blip, or whatever.
For sure it's something to take seriously. But for me it's also a sign of just how good Rimu & co are at dealing with this stuff. DDoS attacks are going to happen because we're trying to do something nice on the internet. It's nice to see Piefed is as robust as it is.
Check here, these were the posts made !fedibridge@lemmy.dbzer0.com
They got 800,000 views between them
Thanks!!
yes its DDOS, but in my comment i meant its nefarious but new influx certainly won t help.