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submitted 2 years ago by favrion@lemmy.ml to c/fediverse@lemmy.ml

If they're trying to attack all of Lemmy, or the whole Fediverse, they're doing it wrong. lol

It's like obvious spam emails that put no effort into appearing legitimate. You have the spirit of it, but your heart is in the wrong place.

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[-] kd637_mi@lemmy.sdf.org 107 points 2 years ago

Because of the unfortunate centralisation that's happened, with so many people being directed to lemmy.world or choosing to go there, a big DDoS attack on world would disrupt a lot of communities that people on other instances use. It's in everyone's interests to spread the load more, which is why I find it sad when some communities migrate to world. UnixPorn was one, although it was already on lemmy.ml which is a larger instance too

[-] Rognaut@kbin.social 27 points 2 years ago

I made a kbin before I made a lemmy account. So when one stops working, switch to the other. Although I do like the apps for lemmy much more (sync).

[-] BedSharkPal@lemmy.ca 23 points 2 years ago

Could also just make a Lemmy account on another instance?

[-] flameguy21@lemm.ee 19 points 2 years ago

Yeah, there's so many communities on world that even if you're on another instance, a good chunk of content just isn't available.

[-] OtakuAltair@lemm.ee 6 points 2 years ago

Don't the communities work even while the instance is down?

I suppose modding them while down would be an issue

[-] jcg@halubilo.social 7 points 2 years ago

Not in the way you think. Yes, you can still comment and post in your own instances version, but for other instances to see it it'll have to go through lemmy.world first and forwarded on. I think it's a bit murky when it comes to comment replies, though, I believe those do get propagated directly to the instance originating the comment (i.e. if a beehaw.org person comments and you reply, they get it sent directly), but you can see how disruptive it is.

[-] DJDarren@beehaw.org 1 points 2 years ago
[-] echodot@feddit.uk 3 points 2 years ago

Beehaw did themselves dirty when they decided to go on a random defederating spree.

I know what the justification given was, it just doesn't make sense. There are plenty of instances that are of the same size and won't defederated.

this post was submitted on 09 Aug 2023
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