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Mastodon says its flagship server was hit by a DDoS attack (techcrunch.com)
submitted 6 months ago by to c/fediverse@lemmy.world
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[–] 10 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Well they targeted the biggest instance. Their attack didn't stop mastodon as a whole, but many users were impacted

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    Maybe it was about silencing s/o on this instance for some time. Idk.

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    Sure but it is ultimately futile because Mastodon, using the ActivityPub protocol, aka The Fediverse, can't be completely shut down. Somebody ddos's one instance, well there are other instances you can join to easily defeat the ddos.

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