I’ve been having intermittent issue accessing lemmy.world today. Seems to be working fine through Voyager on my phone, but my still unable to access via my desktop.
Welcome to using basically the biggest Lemmy instance. There are some users that are constantly trying to DDoS and take down the site. They tried to mass create communities to try and be a power mod, and that got shut down. So perhaps the same user retaliating. Maybe probably other users too.
So… growing pains?
I think I figure out my issue. I’m running pfBlockerNG on my firewall and it looks like the lemmy.world server IP ended up in the CINS_army_v4 list and was getting blocked in my network.
Thank you for this! I’m surprised that this hasn’t affected more people - or maybe I’m just not subscribed to wherever this is being discussed.
CINS Army always gives me a lot of false positives or took a long time to clear good hosts. I stopped using their list at work as a result.
Just move to another instance, and leave the lag behind.
No, not lemmy.ml or sh.itjust.works or beehaw.org, find a small one, the experience will be better. (Try a themed instance so your local feed us useful)
Are there any negatives to using a different instance. Does it require work and hoe do you do it?
There's not really any negatives except losing subscriptions and comments. You just need to find a new instance and sign up for it like you did originally
You can interact with any instance from any other instance. Just make an account on a smaller instance.
It went down a bit earlier. What I'd do is clear your site data/cookies and see if that fixes it. On chromium browsers: click the lock icon on the left of the url bar > cookies > trash icon next to lemmy.world
Also ensure you don't have any adblockers blocking lemmy.world, this is possible considering the lemmy.world icon seems to be blocked :)
Tried that already. The page partially load as shown in the screenshot, most of the time the connection gets outright refused.
Very strange. What I'd do for now is use another instance. If you want, you can export your subscriptions using the Migrator tool, and then import them into another instance (such as lemm.ee). Then, you can carry on as normal!
You'll need to sign up for lemm.ee but otherwise nothing else will change.
Are you absolutely not using any kind of dns blocking, e.g pihole/nextdns/etc? It could be causing it.
Yeah - it looks like it was the pfBlockerNg on the firewall. The lemmy.world IP is on a couple of blacklist it seems.
That's the cost of using the most popular instance.
Some of the most popular instances were hit with a Cross Site Scripting attack.
Yeah same for me all weekend. I switched over to sh just works and it's been better so far.
It has been a hit or miss for me. I have signed up for two other instances just in case.
clear cache
0.18.2 bug, its going around
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