Massive amounts of organic traffic to too small a server technically is a DDOS, even if unintentional rather than malicious. So, both to varying degrees, probably?
It’s DDOS. The admins for World have explicitly said so, and even said exactly how the attacks have been perpetrated by exploiting calls that require a lot of processing time to overload the server.
One claim is DDOS attacks, another claim is that the servers are too small for the massive amount of people that recently adopted lemmy
I’d love to know which is true just because … . . it’s fun to know details
Massive amounts of organic traffic to too small a server technically is a DDOS, even if unintentional rather than malicious. So, both to varying degrees, probably?
It’s DDOS. The admins for World have explicitly said so, and even said exactly how the attacks have been perpetrated by exploiting calls that require a lot of processing time to overload the server.
The numbers are quite open at the maintenance community. Unless most users just decide to visit it together every day, there’s a DDoS going on.