Lemmy.world ongoing DDOS attack: Mitigation Measures

With the DDOS attack against Lemmy.world going on this past week, I think its important for me to talk with the community for "the plan".

Future DDOS attacks remain likely, albeit hampered for now with the upgrade to 0.18.4. But whoever Lemmy.world admins pissed off will remain pissed off, and they'll likely find a new DDOS attack shortly. For now, we can enjoy this period of stability as the old bugs in 0.18.3 have been fixed, so 0.18.4 will at least temporarily be immune to the old DDOS attacks.

I personally have created a https://lemmy.ca account as a backup, and I've promoted [email protected] as my backup account to moderator for !realtesla.

If Lemmy.world goes down in the future, know that I'll continue to moderate and post from https://lemmy.ca/c/[email protected]. Thanks to the magic of federation, we have the ability to use other instances as a backup, automatically. Whatever actions we take place on another server will eventually push and resync themselves with the main lemmy.world server.

Though I'm sure there are still Lemmy federation bugs, its better to officially call https://lemmy.ca/c/[email protected] as the "official second home" of realtesla. Whatever bugs occurs we will deal with, but at least we're all on the same page on what I plan to do in light of future DDOS attacks vs Lemmy.world.

If your account is elsewhere: say https://kbin.social or https://sh.itjust.works, you can use those servers as secondary realtesla backup sites as well. (https://kbin.social/m/[email protected] and https://sh.itjust.works/c/[email protected] respectively). We will desync as long as lemmy.world is shutdown due to DDOS events, but the resync will occur as Lemmy.world comes back up.