Hey folks!
For the past few hours, lemm.ee has been bombarded with abnormal (almost definitely automated) traffic from a range of different IP addresses. This managed to overwhelm our servers, and we were offline for the past hour or so.
I was in the middle of celebrating my birthday, so response was a bit slow, but I believe we are recovering now, with mitigations in place to try and prevent further issues. Some of you may be inconvenienced by some bot checks when you browse lemm.ee, I am sorry about that, but it’s necessary for now.
Sorry for the issues and I hope you have a nice weekend ahead!
Nice work! But remember, there are other instances, and as far as I know your users enjoy your services for free. Take it easy along the way.
Happy birthday!
Thanks for the work, happy birthday!
Happy birthday! No big deal at all!
Thank you! Happy birthday!
Just enjoy your birthday! Sweet 21.
Really, they’re 21 and managing such a large instance? Impressive. Is that true?
Definitely not 😄
Well you don’t look a day over 21…
Happy birthday!
Happy birthday! And thanks for working on that so quickly especially on your birthday.
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I don’t go to this school, but this seems like a particularly strange instance to attack. Were they scrapers? Which is also an incredibly strange thing to do. Spinning up an instance and directly pulling 6 years of content would be far easier.
I read somewhere that the perpetuators are likely getting some practice in before attacking their actual targets. Lemmy instances just happened to be unlucky enough to be among the victims chosen for this rehearsal.
Happy birthday! 🎂
Happy birthday!
Happy birthday!!! <3
Are the bot checks interfering with third party apps? I have problems connecting with voyager but on browser it’s fine after completing the bot checks
Same here. My android app and the front ends I use for the webpage can’t connect to lemmee still.
Thank you for being born!
