Can’t post images because they’re too big so here’s imgur: https://imgur.com/a/Fm52ZTB
Edit: lemmy.ml and lemmy.world seem to have come back, I’m just a bit worried that it’s another one of those hacks.
Edit 2: Most of those I’ve tried came back. reddthat.com and sh.itjust.works seems to still be down
Here is the reason for lemmy.fmhy.ml
https://very.bignutty.xyz/notes/9hf13it1ced3b2za
- .ml domains (the one fmhy.ml was on) has been reclaimed by the Mali government
- Freenom is also being sued by Meta (and has been for the past few months)
- Both of these have resulted in fmhy, along with a lot of other domains, to be unresolvable
- Changing domains will cause us to have to refederate and start mostly from scratch (although we might be able to transfer posts and users)
And it seem to getting worse for lemmy fmhy
https://very.bignutty.xyz/notes/9hg4dquksvbha67h
- All services, except Lemmy, is up and running again via the new domain: https://fmhy.net
- Lemmy itself will require a significant database cleanup to get users transferred, posts and communities may not be possible
- Cleanup will have to be done either manually or with a custom script
And now to answer some common questions I’ve seen floating around:
- Why is lemmy.ml not affected? WE DON’T KNOW. My assumption is that it’s popular (or lucky enough) to not be affected by this change. The only difference between our two domains is that lemmy.ml doesn’t use CF, and AFAIK, multiple other domains (with and without cf) are still unreachable.
- Why can’t you just change the domain? That’s not how federation works. Most services (including Mastodon and Lemmy) do not support changing URL properly, as doing so could potentially break the whole network.
- Why is it taking so long to get back up? Not all staff members have access to the server, CF, or domain registrar. Not to mention that this is a complicated task that requires a lot of effort, and one that we didn’t even know we had to do until the following morning. (We were under the assumption that the .ml TLD didn’t just explode.)
sh.itjust.works admin via matrix:
“looks like a bunch of instances are under attack at the moment”
Not an attack.
See https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3649 and https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3165
Not saying it was a coordinated attack (per your edit), but anything popular is a prime target for various types of attacks, especially easier stuff like DDoS. But with every attack, the developers and various admins/owners of instances learn something new and how to mitigate it. So while it’s annoying, it’s just as much a blessing as it is a curse - better to patch things quickly than leave an exploitable hole open for who knows how long with access to who knows what.
I run my own single user instance, and it was down as well. Not sure why someone would target a single user instance. Not ruling it out, but it seems unlikely.
I’m thinking about doing this for making my main account, since I never look at my local feed anyway.
How’s the experience? And do you know of a good starting point?
The experience is pretty good except for discoverability of new communities. My Subscribed and All feeds are the same. I started with the official local development docker-compose file and massaged it into place for my setup.
All instances using federation are publicly visible and it’s simple to script attacking all of us.
However it’s even easier to just attack Lemmy.world since almost everyone is there and it will have maximum disruption on everyone. People have centralized on one server. :)
But it’s just some denial of service attacks right now. Eventually they probably get tired of it too. There is no point to it really.
Yeah, for me too. Seems like whole fediverse has issues, problems with loading posts etc. at least for me
Same here, sh.itjust.works is currently down:
