this post was submitted on 15 Mar 2025
133 points (100.0% liked)

Meta (lemm.ee)

3878 readers
193 users here now

lemm.ee Meta

This is a community for discussion about this particular Lemmy instance.

News and updates about lemm.ee will be posted here, so if that's something that interests you, make sure to subscribe!


Rules:


If you're a Discord user, you can also join our Discord server: https://discord.gg/XM9nZwUn9K

Discord is only a back-up channel, !meta@lemm.ee will always be the main place for lemm.ee communications.


If you need help with anything, please post in !support instead.

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
 

Hey folks!

For the past few hours, lemm.ee has been bombarded with abnormal (almost definitely automated) traffic from a range of different IP addresses. This managed to overwhelm our servers, and we were offline for the past hour or so.

I was in the middle of celebrating my birthday, so response was a bit slow, but I believe we are recovering now, with mitigations in place to try and prevent further issues. Some of you may be inconvenienced by some bot checks when you browse lemm.ee, I am sorry about that, but it's necessary for now.

Sorry for the issues and I hope you have a nice weekend ahead!

top 33 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] Xanza@lemm.ee 1 points 31 minutes ago

Happy birthday. Check out fail2ban.

[–] BossDj@lemm.ee 2 points 1 hour ago

Happy Birthday!

[–] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 hour ago

Happy birthday!

[–] gregs_gumption@lemm.ee 43 points 3 hours ago

Thanks for the work, happy birthday!

[–] Dogsoftulkas@lemm.ee 1 points 1 hour ago

Thank you for being born!

[–] A_Very_Big_Fan@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago (1 children)
[–] potoo22@programming.dev 2 points 1 hour ago (1 children)
[–] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 24 minutes ago

Happy: the prequel

[–] Fiction@lemm.ee 23 points 3 hours ago

Thank you! Happy birthday!

[–] You_are_dust@lemm.ee 12 points 3 hours ago

Happy birthday! And thanks for working on that so quickly especially on your birthday.

[–] kestrelx@lemm.ee 18 points 3 hours ago

Happy birthday!

[–] UraniumBlazer@lemm.ee 6 points 3 hours ago

Happy birthday!!! <3

[–] Lojcs@lemm.ee 6 points 3 hours ago

Happy birthday!

[–] makingrain@lemm.ee 10 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Just enjoy your birthday! Sweet 21.

[–] henfredemars@infosec.pub 3 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (1 children)

Really, they’re 21 and managing such a large instance? Impressive. Is that true?

[–] sunaurus@lemm.ee 4 points 2 hours ago (1 children)
[–] oddspinnaker@lemm.ee 3 points 1 hour ago

Well you don’t look a day over 21…

[–] fairpixel@lemm.ee 2 points 2 hours ago

Happy birthday

[–] Technoworcester@lemm.ee 8 points 3 hours ago

Happy birthday! Thanks for all your hard work.

[–] sgbrain7@lemm.ee 4 points 3 hours ago

your birthday is the ides of march? sick 🤟

[–] Shadow@lemmy.ca 5 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

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)

[–] TheTurner@lemm.ee 7 points 3 hours ago

Happy birthday! No big deal at all!

[–] aeharding@vger.social 7 points 3 hours ago (1 children)
[–] henfredemars@infosec.pub 4 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Your name is a different color in my client. Why is that?

[–] notanapple@lemm.ee 1 points 1 hour ago

He is the CEO of lemmy.

[–] RagingHungryPanda@lemm.ee 7 points 3 hours ago

Happy birthday!

[–] balssh@lemm.ee 4 points 3 hours ago

Happy birthday! Thanks for your service and hope you enjoy your day.

[–] gon@lemm.ee 5 points 3 hours ago

Well, happy birthday! Sucks about this...

[–] kratoz29@lemm.ee 5 points 3 hours ago

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! 🥳

[–] Vyvanse@lemm.ee 5 points 3 hours ago

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!

[–] henfredemars@infosec.pub 2 points 3 hours ago

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.

[–] Gullible@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 hours ago

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.

[–] illi@lemm.ee 1 points 3 hours ago

Happy birthday!