What has been up with lemmy.world lately?

https://lemmy.world/post/2885077

What has been up with lemmy.world lately? - Lemmy.world

At this point, many people have been bailing from the server due to the uptime issues. What’s the rub?

How do you tell a ddos from legitimate traffic?
Various clues, like what URLs they are requesting, what IPs/regions it's from, if it appears to be real clients based on user agent and ability to execute javascript, and so on.