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Lemmy World is down once again.
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this post was submitted on 31 Jul 2023
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Move to a new, smaller, instance. You can still use lemmy.world as though it was still running at full speed. You can still post to lemmy.world or other federated communities and you experience won’t be so painful.
Lemmy.world is experiencing an influx of Redditors and with us good Redditors come our awful trolls. Growth, along with DDoS attacks have plagued the site since I began using it.
Is lemmy.world getting DDoSed? Who would profit from that? (honest question. I hadn't read this before.)
DDoS are sometimes just people thinking "because I can", not necessarily motivated by profit.
A smallish scale service like a lemmy server ran by volunteers seems like an easy target, so it wouldn't be surprising that being the case.