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There's a really large DDOS attack going on right now.
Lemmy could be getting caught up in it, somehow.
Yikes!
https://www.techradar.com/pro/security/cloudflare-says-it-has-once-again-blocked-the-largest-ever-ddos-attack-in-history
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.
"Somehow"... seems to be caused by using centralized MitM Clownflare that supposedly protects against DDOS 🙄