Rachel Rawlings
Eugen RochkoWe've been hit by a massive DDoS attack. The site may not work as expected. We're working on mitigating the attack. Fastly are helping us. If in doubt, check status.mastodon.social for information.
Everything is back to normal now. Yes, it was an attack, not legitimate traffic. No, we don't know who was behind it. I agree the timing with Twitter being down was unfortunate.
Fastly and Datadog who both sponsor us by providing us a free service were instrumental in analyzing and mitigating the attack. Shout out to our own team as well, glad I don't have to do this alone anymore!
stuxβ‘οΈ
Kidding! Well done mate 
Eric Redegeldπ»ποΈβοΈππ
sandywb14@Gargron Thanks to all! The spirit of this community is heart warming.
TriciaB@Gargron π π π & thanks to all
Dismal Manor Gang@Gargron Time to start a fund drive for a Korbomite device (original Star Trek).
HugoPoi@Gargron This can be related to the down Ielo ISP in France
The timeline match.
The timeline match.
Touaregtweet@Gargron ππΌ ππΌ ππΌ
Jeff the Alien@Gargron Will there be a blog post detailing what and how it all happened, and list any IOCs, etc.?
@energiepirat@Gargron π π π
masyfil@Gargron well done! β€οΈ
Laure
andrew!@Gargron maybe the api team at twitter got reassigned to ddos attack mastodon
airportline@Gargron Just in time for Twitter to shit the bed 
Andre_601 
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Anxious_Agender@andre_601 @Gargron @airportline A bot once said that Australia isnβt real, I think this is how it felt.
flexghost.@Gargron Thank you for handling it, big guns
lucas 
@Gargron wonder if another service has spent more resources on DDoS than maintaining their own site, seeing as this coincides with them being downβ¦
@Gargron twitter is down, could it be genuine traffic?
Gormulus@Gargron Might have something to do with Twitter being down and everyone and their mother trying to use Mastodon at once?
lamp@gormulus wtf twitter's serving json instead of html?
Michael@Gargron Are you sure it's DDOS?
and not quite many people coming over from the other "social" network that is down? ;D
garpu@Gargron It looks like twitter's down. Maybe just massive influx of new people?
Conor
Maarten Schenk 
@Gargron Nah, just everyone coming over from Twitter to complain π
Andrew@Gargron external links aren't working on twitter
Naomi Dierckx@Gargron Elon having a tantrum because his precious vanity project is down?
JosephMenn@Gargron Thanks for handling. Any guess on motive?
Son of Sandor@Gargron Twitters down too.
Ernie Smith@Gargron Good luck resolving it sir.
Mike Fraser@Gargron Site loads fine for me. Resolved?
sj_zeroThoughts to you guys. It's sad that certain people want to take something good and destroy it for no good reason. β
Lee@Gargron Those people (Twitter or Bluesky shills?) need to get a life.
morph@Gargron βπ»
Nagmay
Fuck Elon 
FirefighterGeek 
@Gargron Nice that federation results in a working Mastodon experience for most not being interrupted.
In theory, I suppose, you could have a secondary account on another instance following the same people and have built in personal redundancy.
Christian Pietsch (old acct.)@FirefighterGeek @Gargron Just move to a smaller instance.
Tylor Sweeney@Gargron thank you and the entire team for all the hard work keeping everything running as smoothly as possible.
hajota@Gargron Already noticed ...
KlonAmy@Gargron Is it still ongoing?
Lennart Koopmann
Mary Beth Defer@Gargron Do you happen to know who is doing it? Are you willing to day?
κ₯πΈ KitaneaKitty πΈκ₯@Gargron Twitter's working
Jane Kaylor@Gargron it would explain why I had to make 2nd Account and start anew
Monique@Gargron Gees, why do people do this stuff, seems for some so hard to leave other people's things alone.
Raul Portales@Gargron DDoS or sudden surge in legitimate interest by Twitter being down?
Pusher Of Pixels (old account)@Gargron another bene of a distributed system.
They *can't* DDos all the instances.
CalamusEstFortis@Gargron Everything working fine for me right now, so whilst it still is...
πΆ Find #JohnMastodon πΆ
He'll know what to do.
Sean
Shawn Powers@Gargron This sucks, truly, and yet also shows how incredible decentralized infrastructure is for a platform.
(This is an example of something I'd quote-toot, and I'm still not sure how that is "properly" done... I didn't screenshot because I know the concept is offensive to you personally. Anyway, as to the original toot, thanks for making a platform so open and resilient.)
requiem π¦«@Gargron This is a good reminder to federate early, federate often.
It's much harder to stage such an attack against a million tiny nodes than a single big one.
chuls@Gargron wtf is wrong with people
Ajwseven@sportsbots This might be why you were having issues with mastodon.social.
Eric Gilmour@Gargron Suspicious timing with the twitter outage, did someone time this attack to prevent another migration of users I wonder
GJ Groothedde πͺπΊ@Gargron Best of luck!