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At this point, many people have been bailing from the server due to the uptime issues. What's the rub?

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[–] Sanctus 108 points 1 year ago (3 children)

They're being targeted for constant DDoS attacks. Could be multiple reasons. But the takeaway should be to spread out evenly through the fediverse. Don't all pile into .world (as I post this on my .world account).

[–] Carighan 34 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Probably those ultra right-wingers from that recently defederated instance being the adult man-children they always are.

[–] Buelldozer@lemmy.today 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

It could be tbut the most recent de-federation controversy didn't involve a right wing instance.

[–] ieightpi 22 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I know it's easy to blame the alt right for everything, but the hexbear community was a communist community.

[–] Decoy321@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I thought the most recent one was those skinheads taking over rammy. I figure there's going to be quite a few defederating examples going on.

[–] ieightpi 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh I didn't hear about that one

[–] MaxVerstappen 2 points 1 year ago

It wasn't really newsworthy, just an abandoned instance hijacked by a handful of nutjobs.

[–] meldroc 1 points 1 year ago

Are they the same neo-nazi chuds from that detonating craniums instance that everyone de-fedded?

[–] Astroturfed 0 points 1 year ago

The most recent two I saw were Nazi racist/anti-lgbt folks.

[–] IlliteratiDomine@infosec.pub 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

IIRC these rolling DOS attacks started before the most recent defed, though. They've been happening for a while.

[–] Buelldozer@lemmy.today 3 points 1 year ago

They were indeed but that doesn't mean its only one group doing this.

[–] dimspace 4 points 1 year ago

there was a defed with a bunch of tankies, and they were openly discussing on their instance doing and having done ddos attacks

[–] squiblet@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

The Rammy thing? Many of the objectionable posts there were by the exact same person from exploding heads.

[–] P00Pchute 13 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Any recommendations other than .world?

[–] lechatron 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've been going to sh.itjust.works. You can find a list of other instances here as well.

[–] Aimhere@midwest.social 12 points 1 year ago

Try to find an instance that's local to your country or region.

[–] teft@startrek.website 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

come join us at startrek.website

[–] RavenFellBlade 2 points 1 year ago

Agreed.

Startrek.website and sh.itjust.works are the other two legs of my Lemmy Tripod.

[–] henfredemars@infosec.pub 1 points 1 year ago

I know nothing of Star Trek but after watching the newer Kahn movie I was inspired to watch starting from the modernized episode 1.

What I'm saying is--yes.

[–] rikudou@lemmings.world 7 points 1 year ago

Lemmings.world - so far a small instance with big heart!

[–] Rhaedas@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago

Lemmy Explorer can help give a big picture view of what's out there, both in instances and in communities. Kbin instances are also viewable, you have to select them from the top right menu.

[–] Arotrios@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Been on kbin.social for a month and it's been pretty solid. Note it's a different platform than lemmy (designed to read both lemmy and mastodon), but does a great job posting to and handling the content from lemmy platforms. There's growing pains here too, but the uptime has been good.

[–] tal@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I think that the dev and some volunteers at kbin.social has done a lot of work on scaling up that instance, but even so, kbin.social will probably hit hard-to-fix scaling issues at some point. It's also a big instance, like lemmy.world.

I'd been looking at another (presently small) US-based one-person kbin instance, was planning to hop over if it stayed up to help spread load, but it looks like it went down.

I suppose that once a number of instances have a track record of staying up for N months and with their uptime records established, it'll be easier to figure out what instances are good alternatives, are likely around for the long haul, and which ones will vanish in the wind.

[–] Arotrios@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago

You're right, and one of the reasons I decided to start a community here was because @ernest has done a fantastic job laying out the plans for scale at kbin (both the instance and the platform as a whole) thus far - detail here. Thus far he's the only instance owner I've seen with a real roadmap, and actively applying for grant funding to cover scaling costs. It's good to see - kbin is definitely his baby and he takes great care of it.

Regarding other small kbin instances, you might look at kglitch.social. @kglitch has made some frontend changes that bring it more in line with Mastodon and Lemmy, and I haven't seen an outage yet.

[–] dbilitated@aussie.zone 1 points 1 year ago

just find a regional one run by a committed nerd

[–] Rhaedas@kbin.social 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The big reason for being a target is the size. Why attack smaller ones with less effect? Like making a virus for anything besides Windows. But maybe the long term benefit is the movement of some to other instances, balancing out the loads.

[–] Sanctus 2 points 1 year ago

The DDoS is coming from inaide the server πŸ‘€