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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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[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 year ago (5 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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?

[–] MoreThanCorrect 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Isn't that what was termed the reddit hug of death?

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

It was indeed, but maybe with a slightly different nuance of 'going viral' - still a DDOS.

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