@[email protected] to General [email protected]English • 2 years agoWhat has been up with lemmy.world lately?postimg.ccexternal-linkmessage-square52fedilinkarrow-up1142
arrow-up1142external-linkWhat has been up with lemmy.world lately?postimg.cc@[email protected] to General [email protected]English • 2 years agomessage-square52fedilink
At this point, many people have been bailing from the server due to the uptime issues. What’s the rub?
minus-squarefiat_luxlinkfedilink19•2 years agoMassive amounts of organic traffic to too small a server technically is a DDOS, even if unintentional rather than malicious. So, both to varying degrees, probably?
minus-squareMoreThanCorrectlinkfedilink10•2 years agoIsn’t that what was termed the reddit hug of death?
minus-squarefiat_luxlinkfedilink1•2 years agoIt was indeed, but maybe with a slightly different nuance of ‘going viral’ - still a DDOS.
Massive amounts of organic traffic to too small a server technically is a DDOS, even if unintentional rather than malicious. So, both to varying degrees, probably?
Isn’t that what was termed the reddit hug of death?
It was indeed, but maybe with a slightly different nuance of ‘going viral’ - still a DDOS.