Comment on Can we please unpin the proprietary off-site/off-network promotion of discord
Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de 2 years agoWhy does it matter?
joinmastodon.org/servers lists a lot of options.
Comment on Can we please unpin the proprietary off-site/off-network promotion of discord
Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de 2 years agoWhy does it matter?
joinmastodon.org/servers lists a lot of options.
AlmightySnoo@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Because it needs to be DDOS-resistant and be able to handle at least 128k users. Otherwise it’s not a fallback in case lemmy.world is targeted again. There are groups who hate LW and want to take it down, if they know that their alternative communication channel is also some other self-hosted service they’re going to target that one too.
Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de 2 years ago
Isn’t content from Mastodon federated across the instances? Meaning that LW could just open an account on any Mastodon server (not their own, to avoid to handle both at the same time)?
Or are you saying that Mastodon is as DDoS vulnerable as Lemmy, making the server that would host the LW account a DDoS target?
AlmightySnoo@lemmy.world 2 years ago
So what I understand is that you’re proposing playing cat and mouse with DDOS attackers then?
Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de 2 years ago
Just to clarify, if someone is targeting LW, and Mastodon is as DDoS vulnerable as Lemmy, why wouldn’t they attack mastodon.world as well?
Mastodon.world has 99,97% uptime: status.mastodon.world