Christina WarrenOK, so Mastodon.social is super unstable. Does that mean I need to move to another instance? Cries humming Radiohead’s "Just" because I did do this to myself. Just me.
Michael Stanclift@film_girl they are being DDoS’d at the moment.
Chris Trottier@atomicpoet @film_girl I know based on chatter in the project Discord that there is something going on, maybe not distributed but the front end is being hammered.
@vmstan @film_girl I wonder what the possible motive is.
Greyshley @atomicpoet @film_girl @vmstan you sure it's not just the users?
iirc gargron's been struggling with those since before the musk debacle.
iirc gargron's been struggling with those since before the musk debacle.
@dhfir @atomicpoet @vmstan yeah, don't ascribe to malice what can more easily be ascribed to the asshole trolls on the internet that like to break things without an agenda.
@film_girl @atomicpoet @vmstan not even that.
s'just a lotta users, and Gargon's been refusing to stop allowing new signups to prevent overload.
iirc it wouldn't even be the first time that happened.
s'just a lotta users, and Gargon's been refusing to stop allowing new signups to prevent overload.
iirc it wouldn't even be the first time that happened.
@dhfir @atomicpoet @vmstan ahh, user load makes sense but shutting down signups, I get it but I also really, really don't if you don't have the infra to deal with it all.
@film_girl @dhfir @vmstan Eugen doesn't exactly have the scale and infrastructure right now to deal with more users. I mean, he might eventually, but not now. But it's clear, in this case, a DDoS was happening.
@dhfir @film_girl @vmstan Confirmed it was a DDoS attack. https://mastodon.social/@Gargron/109781490892884305