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Why is Lemmy World down? (lemmy.ml)
submitted 1 year ago by favrion@lemmy.ml to c/fediverse@lemmy.ml
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Why do the instances keep going down? It makes me think that this is not a reliable social network, but the alternatives are not as good.

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[-] SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

I read that it was a DDOS but I wonder what the motivation for doing that is? It isn't like you can extort any money out of lemmy.

[-] inexplicablehaddock@lemmy.loungerat.io 4 points 1 year ago

Some people are just spiteful shitheads. Also, there's been a bit of a wave of DDOS attacks against US-registered sites lately- Archive of Our Own, a fanfiction website, got DDOSed a few weeks back. Seems like they're going after any site that doesn't have good DDOS protection and is based in the US.

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