It was my fault. Happened shorty after I joined lemmy. Sorry everyone.
There’s a really large DDOS attack going on right now.
Lemmy could be getting caught up in it, somehow.
Yikes!
Cloudflare has said it recently successfully stopped the largest distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack ever recorded. The attack reached 22.2 terabits per second and 10.6 billion packets per second, setting a new world record.
Holy shit. But it lasted only 40 seconds… This smell like a field test for something worse.
Might be, yes. But that suuurely cost a fuckton of money.
When isn’t there one going?
I mean, yes, but this one is really huge. I think it’s in the trillions of source nodes, if I understand the blurb I saw about it.
Seems better now
I mean, i don’t use those other istances so maybe is just a coincidence.
Is just heavy traffic?
that is ddos in a nutshell, but people are speculating the causes
Occam’s Razor says AI
It seems that there has been a massive short lived ddos attack all over the web.
There have been several in the later years. Sone of them are linked to a botnet called AISURU that it’s supposedly infected millions of devices worldwide.
Timing links most likely with an attempt at hybrid warfare against europe. My bet is israel or Russian linked due recent events.
No, that’s what the common prejudices about the popular whipping boy of the moment says.