Hmmm, we're getting a fuckload of web requests on our Lemmy too... I think I'll enable CloudFlare too! :)

It went down again, lol. For like an hour or so, right after I claimed it was working for me. Go figure. :B

I assume you are rotating ip addresses after swapping to cloudflare?

Welcome to the internet, glad there’s a working solution

Nice try, Mr. Huffman.

I joined July 1 for obvious reasons, I love it here.

I'm asking how many times has lemmy had to deal with these kinds of attacks prior to the "Date shall not be named"

Cause it kinda seems pretty coincidental for the amount of times I've been forced to be "offline" on this platform is gd laughable.

I thumbs up good content always.

Not sure if it’s related, but today on Mastodon, I’m unable to upload photos. Also can’t see pics from other users. Profile pics are mostly greyed out too.

Yeah, this is just growing pains for any website. Get popular enough for it to be "fun" to target. Then get enough data that it's "profitable" to target. Etc. And the usual way to deal is to first use an external solution at least until it becomes too expensive due to traffic volume. Then make your own solutions for problems you can solve yourself and pay external companies for the ones you can't.

Thank you for your efforts, work and results. Those "attackers" only deserve disgust.

My biggest problem with CloudFlare is that very often they don't play nicely with VPN.

Script Kiddies are definetely some of the saddest people on the internet. If you're gonna be an unethical hacker at all, actually do it. Don't be a sissy.

Whats the motivation to DDOS? How mutch is specific malice to lemmy or lemmy.world itself and how much is genaric.

Damn these script kiddies.. I don't like Cloudflare at all but it does its job well. It may just be my paranoia, but putting a single entity in control of so many websites seems dangerous. I think we have all learned about the intentions of big corporations. But hey, it's better than being taken down tbf.

You should change the public IP of the server if you haven't already