RE: https://oldfriends.live/@paul/116440288734839618
Mstdn.party are hours behind in their jobs. They had issues the other day, per the admin account
A post did get to me about from a user that thought #hashtagGames was hidden from them
My hour old reply hasn't reached the user yet. Must be in the instance's sidekiq queue still
We are seeing a lot of propaganda bot activity. Accounts posting "news" in English and Ukrainian. We have suspended 8 accounts in the last 48 hours; I'm sure there are more. If you see this activity on #StrangerSocial, please report it. #mastoadmin
Thanks,
The Staff.
mastodon.social is currently undergoing a major Denial of Service (DDOS) incident. The team is working on this as a matter of priority. Thank you for your patience!
baffling actually. just really weird behaviour. but I guess that is what happens sometimes if you blast a postgres db all day every day for 9 years
anyways sorry for the downtime and for your timelines only slowly catching up again but now everything ought to be nice and snappy again
RE: https://mastodon.infra.de/@galaxis/116432917739236724
Kudos to @galaxis. There is an option to disable timelines for non-authenticated users, which also disables remote hashtag access.
Bots are still scraping media, but I hope when queue dries up it will stop as well
Okay, after adding AS to http logs I can __ 205__ distinct AS numbers in last 30 minutes requesting /tags/*
What the actual fuck?! No, seriously, has anyone seen that? I would suspect fucking AI scrappers, but they only hammering tags endpoint.
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