Thanks for the work, happy birthday!
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Thank you! Happy birthday!
Happy birthday!
❤️
Your name is a different color in my client. Why is that?
bc I made your client
No way…
Frantically looks up the app.
Wow. Ah, Nice job. Thanks. I spend a lot of time using it every day.
He is the CEO of lemmy.
Just enjoy your birthday! Sweet 21.
Really, they’re 21 and managing such a large instance? Impressive. Is that true?
Definitely not 😄
Well you don’t look a day over 21…
We've been dealing with these too at lemmy.ml, don't sweat it, we'll figure it out. Happy bday! Hope it was a good one.
Happy birthday!
We saw a brief similar traffic spike approximately an hour ago, but it dropped off pretty quick. It seemed to focus on our mlmym front end and briefly overloaded our backends for a minute.
All the suspicious ips I've checked so far, are owned by chinese cloud providers (huawei, alibaba, tencent, etc)
Happy birthday! Thanks for all your hard work.
Happy birthday!
Happy birthday! 🎂
Suspicious timing considering that we have had a large reddit influx.
Thank you for taking time out of your birthday to get lemm.ee back online. I hope the rest of your day goes great. Happy Birthday!
Happy birthday!
Happy birthday!!! <3
Happy birthday! Thanks for your service and hope you enjoy your day.
🎉birth
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Happy: the prequel
Happy Birthday!
Huh, I hope it wasn't me with my constant Summit (Lemmy client) refreshes (I was having issues with that app so I was doing a lot of API requests I guess) 🤣
Happy birthday! 🥳
I don’t go to this school, but this seems like a particularly strange instance to attack. Were they scrapers? Which is also an incredibly strange thing to do. Spinning up an instance and directly pulling 6 years of content would be far easier.
I read somewhere that the perpetuators are likely getting some practice in before attacking their actual targets. Lemmy instances just happened to be unlucky enough to be among the victims chosen for this rehearsal.
Well, happy birthday! Sucks about this...
Happy birthday. Check out fail2ban.
Have a happy rest of your birthday sunaurus!
your birthday is the ides of march? sick 🤟
that's crazy, happy birthday!!!!
Happy birthday
Nice work! But remember, there are other instances, and as far as I know your users enjoy your services for free. Take it easy along the way.
It seems this borked access for third party apps and the different front ends for Lemmy webpage. It is just showing network error
Thank you for being born!
Happy Birthday! I’m using Voyager and experienced some issues and downtime as well. Sneaky bots.
I'm curious about steps you took in reaction to this, of course if sharing compromises the mitigation then by all means, you don't have to
and/or also how do you learn about managing attacks like these ?
Happy Birthday!! I hope it was a good one!
Happy birthday!
I'm late (as always -_-), but happy birthday! 🎉
No problem, thanks as always for the hard work, and belated happy birthday!