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Re:Lemmy, an open-source federated Reddit alternative, gets ... by sq_ on Saturday June 27, 2020 @04:37PM (#23664480)
Same here. Must be getting the HN hug of death.
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Re:Lemmy, an open-source federated Reddit alternative, gets ... by gpm on Saturday June 27, 2020 @06:14PM (#23665102)
> dessalines (mod, admin, creator) 23 minutes ago

> We have > 2200 connections to the server right now, its a DDOS. Rust seems to be handling it fine, but the nginx is having issues.

https://dev.lemmy.ml/post/35712

Sounds about right - I'm amused that whoever saw this thought it was a ddos though.

dessalines - if you're reading this - I expect looking at referrers would be a good way to (manually) diagnose real attacks vs people becoming interested in your site.

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