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Mastodon says its flagship server was hit by a DDoS attack (techcrunch.com)

submitted 6 months ago by nemeski@piefed.social to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

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[–] jafra@slrpnk.net 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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[–] FreeBooteR69@lemmy.ca 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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[–] daychilde@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago

You make a good point, however a counterpoint: Instance information is not hidden. It would be relatively trivial for a bad actor with resources to DDOS one instance to add other instances.

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