Comment on Can we please unpin the proprietary off-site/off-network promotion of discord
AlmightySnoo@lemmy.world 10 months agoWhy does it matter?
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 10 months 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 10 months ago
So what I understand is that you’re proposing playing cat and mouse with DDOS attackers then?
Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de 10 months 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
AlmightySnoo@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Because it’s not being advertised as LW’s alternative communication channel, hence they likely don’t see the need to target it.