@Gargron @Viss

@Gargron DDoS or sudden surge in legitimate interest by Twitter being down?

@Gargron It's no DDoS, it's everyone coming on to masto to post #twitterdown and upload screenshots of the json responses they were getting

@Gargron it would explain why I had to make 2nd Account and start anew

@Gargron another bene of a distributed system.

They *can't* DDos all the instances.

#Fediverse #FediStrong

@Gargron Am I the only one wondering if these attacks come from #Musk and his fascist cronies?

@Gargron This is a good reminder to federate early, federate often.

It's much harder to stage such an attack against a million tiny nodes than a single big one.

@Gargron Seems like you did a great job. Thank you! 🙇‍♂️

@Gargron Who would do this, and why?

@Gargron best wishes for conquer this attack.😈

This #DDoS should also good reminder as well, to spread users across many #Instances and don't let them pile up at one. 😉

@Gargron wtf is wrong with people

@sportsbots This might be why you were having issues with mastodon.social.

@Gargron Suspicious timing with the twitter outage, did someone time this attack to prevent another migration of users I wonder

@Gargron Best of luck!

@Gargron Thank you for the transparency.

@Gargron was this related to all the weird Twitter Toots I wasnt following showing up on my dash? I was trying to check if I accidentally followed the hashtag

@Gargron lulz, if this was an kind of aggression from the baby who owns the birdsite.

@Gargron Need to work with your CDN to at least splash up a failephant when stuff like this happens. The 503 error-page otherwise has no zing.

@Gargron Elon fights back! 🤪