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Today, like the past few days, we have had some downtime. Apparently some script kids are enjoying themselves by targeting our server (and others). Sorry for the inconvenience.

Most of these 'attacks' are targeted at the database, but some are more ddos-like and can be mitigated by using a CDN. Some other Lemmy servers are using Cloudflare, so we know that works. Therefore we have chosen Cloudflare as CDN / DDOS protection platform for now. We will look into other options, but we needed something to be implemented asap.

For the other attacks, we are using them to investigate and implement measures like rate limiting etc.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Why don't you close the subscription to Lemmy.world so new people will subscribe to smaller server so that if one has problem, not the majority of the people are affected by it? Isn't this supposed to be one of the main characteristic of the fediverse?

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well I signed today and I got an error saying rate limit earlier for using these types of symbols "î¦âö)ééäë((ºÜݨ¿ã¿ï" I'm assuming It has nothing to do with this but just In case I'm making a comment about It

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[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago

Also when will CloudFlare drop lemmy as a 'Nazi' site?

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

My proposal: using old UI by default must mitigate the attacks because we will no longer have to download shitty *.js files anymore.

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[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago

We was behind Cloudflare since day one 😀 And even on Cloudflare there is not the origin IP its again reverse proxied, and we are small site compared to lemmy.world 😜

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I could swear, and also could be wrong, but someone said Cloudflail doesn't handle ddos attacks. Which adds more to your comment if true lol

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[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago

Lmaooo Cloudflare is in the comments downvoting criticism

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Am I the only one who'd have no issue with ads in lemmy? As long as they dont use too much space. Amount in ads in RiF was good for me, don't know if they earned much from it.

Money could go to app creator and instance owner, i don't care, as long as it helps running the community.

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[–] [email protected] -4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

ah, rate limits. something twitter was absolutely blasted for but makes sense here because we love lemmy :) even though it serves the same purpose.

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