Update 2: Another one at the moment, so site is slow. :)
Update: Another 30000 bots joined the party, so cpu usage is high at the moment. Site is slower than normal.
Appearently about 17500 bots are attempting to slow down our instance and eating bandwidth by grabbing the same files over and over.
They are banned for now but its an ongoing battle against these guys. Just wanted to let you know in case you notice worse performance. :)
27 Comments
nothingcorporate@lemmy.today · 21 pts · 305d
Keep up the great work Mr. Manager!
SkyezOpen@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 305d
We just say manager.
RaoulDuke@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 8 pts · 305d
Flagstaff@programming.dev · 8 pts · 305d
Seeing this stuff freaks me out over the coming Orwellian state that will crush all free thought (in discussion boards like these, by shutting them down) through the might of its resources.
I hope the defense is sustainable. Thanks for what you do.
mrmanager@lemmy.today · 9 pts · 305d
I think we are already there in some ways. But maybe more similar to Brave New World than 1984. People being unhappy but using things like media streaming and social media to get relief from the daily grind.
theskyisfalling@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 305d
When do I get the soma to make it all more bearable?
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 304d
Endorphins released by doom scrolling is the new Soma.
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today · 3 pts · 304d
Keep your Critical Thinking Skills sharp, and teach your children, relatives, and friends. Critical Thinking is the best defense against the Conservative Propaganda Machine.
Paradachshund@lemmy.today · 7 pts · 305d
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Alice@hilariouschaos.com · 7 pts · 305d
Why are they doing that.? Dumb question i know
mrmanager@lemmy.today · 15 pts · 305d
I wish I knew. Maybe they dont like that we federate with all instances, including not popular ones. Maybe its because we blocked 16 million chinese ip addresses last week because they had tons of bots scraping the instance.
Just trying to run a small instance with good performance over here. :)
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today · 3 pts · 304d
At least one objective is certainly just probing the borders, nooks and crannies of the entire system, and figuring out where they can break in and exploit whatever they can.
They've been really successful in ruining Reddit, and they've identified Lemmy as the obvious successor, so they'll be targeting us next. They'll either capture us, and turn it into another mouthpiece for the Conservative Propaganda Machine, or just destroy it.
mrmanager@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 304d
At least we are distributed on lemmy, so they will have a hard time taking us all down for a long time. :)
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 304d
We all know that, and they've probably figured that out by now, but they'll keep trying. When you've got the resources of an entire government behind you, there's not much you can't accomplish, given enough effort.
Good luck on holding them back, we're on your side.
mrmanager@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 304d
Thats true. I hope governments are not out to shut down the lemmy network. Its just a tiny amount of people who enjoy this stuff anyway.
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 304d
Lemmy reminds me of Reddit, when I joined over a dozen years ago. Nobody had heard of it back then. Then it grew, I accumulated nearly a million Karma, then I was permabanned after Trump's inauguration, for posting a statement Id made many times without so much as a warning.
10 years from now, when MAGA has captured Reddit, and every other broadcast network, every newspaper, etc., and Lemmy is all that's left, it won't be tiny anymore.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 304d
Trumps 1st term when people started getting banned in large numbers, and it snowballed from there.
mrmanager@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 304d
Yeah, I just wish there was more discussions about different interests, like on reddit.
For example, as a nerd, i use neovim a lot. But there is no community here that posts about new plugins and new features, no discussions how to do certain things. Reddit is still the go-to source for those things. I would love if that could change, but the majority of users are still on that reddit place... :P
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 304d
It doesn't take much on reddit, they half there already, palintir bots made it too obvious
Allero@lemmy.today · 4 pts · 305d
Maybe just AI crawlers? Or the fact that the instance hosts some conservative content, which is not going well with many lemmings
mrmanager@lemmy.today · 6 pts · 305d
Yeah could be. There is a trend right now on social media where people think they need to push down and try to remove opinions they dont agree with.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 304d
Right now , far right wing needs some whitewashing so they have to spread around
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today · 3 pts · 304d
Foreign intelligence operations, just messing with our society.
I just read that the entire Cracker Barrel debacle was started by a bot swarm, that then got picked up by gullible MAGAs. The result was a corporation wasting millions of dollars on a trashed branding/marketing effort, and an unknown amount in lost business.
The entire point of the Russian and Chinese attacks on our country isn't any specific outcome, they just want us to fuck up our own country in as many ways as possible, and it is working extremely well.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 304d
That explains why I couldn't access this instance yesterday
mrmanager@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 304d
Yep even though its funny how they care about like 120 daily users of Lemmy on this instance. :)