In the past two weeks, the site has been very unstable, sometimes for one second a page would load and the next it wouldn't load at all. The status of lemmy.world would fluctuate a lot on lemmy-status.org, and there have times where the site has been down for hours.

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[โ€“] 2 points 3 years ago (1 child)

Didn't they also say that there were other kinds of attacks being used as well, not just DDoS I may be remembering wrong but I feel like I heard one of the admins say something about a database related attack where they overloaded the database with download requests or something like that.

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