And I see both of your replies on lemmy, in the Jerboa app. What a time to be alive!

I'm more of a Dungeon guy myself, but sometimes Rampart is fine.

Sublemmy? Slemmy?

check out https://lemmynsfw.com/

Ooh I have a sense this will all be very good here.

Cloudflare can protect against DDOS. In this instance the people are ddosing the server, although not intentionally. There are just a lot of people trying to open the site. So it's not malicious but still an "attack", which cloudflare's service mitigates. In reddit it was called the "reddit hug of death", when small sites kneeled down because a post got popular with their links in it.

And yes, there are, the second largest is fedia.io You can find more here:

https://fedidb.org/software/kbin

On kbin.social specifically, federation is currently broken. The server saw a lot of stress because of the influx of new users and the dev turned on the cloudflare check, so that instance won't kneel down. That broke the federation, other instances cannot go through that check.

You can even say...the real treasure is the friends we made along the way?

We should implement the no emoji rule here though...