They’re being targeted for constant DDoS attacks. Could be multiple reasons. But the takeaway should be to spread out evenly through the fediverse. Don’t all pile into .world (as I post this on my .world account).
Lemmy Explorer can help give a big picture view of what’s out there, both in instances and in communities. Kbin instances are also viewable, you have to select them from the top right menu.
Been on kbin.social for a month and it’s been pretty solid. Note it’s a different platform than lemmy (designed to read both lemmy and mastodon), but does a great job posting to and handling the content from lemmy platforms. There’s growing pains here too, but the uptime has been good.
I think that the dev and some volunteers at kbin.social has done a lot of work on scaling up that instance, but even so, kbin.social will probably hit hard-to-fix scaling issues at some point. It’s also a big instance, like lemmy.world.
I’d been looking at another (presently small) US-based one-person kbin instance, was planning to hop over if it stayed up to help spread load, but it looks like it went down.
I suppose that once a number of instances have a track record of staying up for N months and with their uptime records established, it’ll be easier to figure out what instances are good alternatives, are likely around for the long haul, and which ones will vanish in the wind.
You’re right, and one of the reasons I decided to start a community here was because @ernest has done a fantastic job laying out the plans for scale at kbin (both the instance and the platform as a whole) thus far - detail here. Thus far he’s the only instance owner I’ve seen with a real roadmap, and actively applying for grant funding to cover scaling costs. It’s good to see - kbin is definitely his baby and he takes great care of it.
Regarding other small kbin instances, you might look at kglitch.social. @kglitch has made some frontend changes that bring it more in line with Mastodon and Lemmy, and I haven’t seen an outage yet.
The big reason for being a target is the size. Why attack smaller ones with less effect? Like making a virus for anything besides Windows. But maybe the long term benefit is the movement of some to other instances, balancing out the loads.
They’re being targeted for constant DDoS attacks. Could be multiple reasons. But the takeaway should be to spread out evenly through the fediverse. Don’t all pile into .world (as I post this on my .world account).
Probably those ultra right-wingers from that recently defederated instance being the adult man-children they always are.
It could be tbut the most recent de-federation controversy didn’t involve a right wing instance.
I know it’s easy to blame the alt right for everything, but the hexbear community was a communist community.
I thought the most recent one was those skinheads taking over rammy. I figure there’s going to be quite a few defederating examples going on.
Oh I didn’t hear about that one
It wasn’t really newsworthy, just an abandoned instance hijacked by a handful of nutjobs.
Are they the same neo-nazi chuds from that detonating craniums instance that everyone de-fedded?
The most recent two I saw were Nazi racist/anti-lgbt folks.
IIRC these rolling DOS attacks started before the most recent defed, though. They’ve been happening for a while.
They were indeed but that doesn’t mean its only one group doing this.
there was a defed with a bunch of tankies, and they were openly discussing on their instance doing and having done ddos attacks
The Rammy thing? Many of the objectionable posts there were by the exact same person from exploding heads.
Right wingers aren’t smart enough to coordinate something like that.
Any recommendations other than .world?
I’ve been going to sh.itjust.works. You can find a list of other instances here as well.
Try to find an instance that’s local to your country or region.
come join us at startrek.website
Agreed.
Startrek.website and sh.itjust.works are the other two legs of my Lemmy Tripod.
I know nothing of Star Trek but after watching the newer Kahn movie I was inspired to watch starting from the modernized episode 1.
What I’m saying is–yes.
Lemm.ee works
Lemmings.world - so far a small instance with big heart!
Lemmy Explorer can help give a big picture view of what’s out there, both in instances and in communities. Kbin instances are also viewable, you have to select them from the top right menu.
Been on kbin.social for a month and it’s been pretty solid. Note it’s a different platform than lemmy (designed to read both lemmy and mastodon), but does a great job posting to and handling the content from lemmy platforms. There’s growing pains here too, but the uptime has been good.
I think that the dev and some volunteers at kbin.social has done a lot of work on scaling up that instance, but even so, kbin.social will probably hit hard-to-fix scaling issues at some point. It’s also a big instance, like lemmy.world.
I’d been looking at another (presently small) US-based one-person kbin instance, was planning to hop over if it stayed up to help spread load, but it looks like it went down.
I suppose that once a number of instances have a track record of staying up for N months and with their uptime records established, it’ll be easier to figure out what instances are good alternatives, are likely around for the long haul, and which ones will vanish in the wind.
You’re right, and one of the reasons I decided to start a community here was because @ernest has done a fantastic job laying out the plans for scale at kbin (both the instance and the platform as a whole) thus far - detail here. Thus far he’s the only instance owner I’ve seen with a real roadmap, and actively applying for grant funding to cover scaling costs. It’s good to see - kbin is definitely his baby and he takes great care of it.
Regarding other small kbin instances, you might look at kglitch.social. @kglitch has made some frontend changes that bring it more in line with Mastodon and Lemmy, and I haven’t seen an outage yet.
just find a regional one run by a committed nerd
The big reason for being a target is the size. Why attack smaller ones with less effect? Like making a virus for anything besides Windows. But maybe the long term benefit is the movement of some to other instances, balancing out the loads.
The DDoS is coming from inaide the server 👀