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mastodon.social, mastodon.online and joinmastodon.org were hit by a DDoS yesterday, thankfully joinmastodon.org was already behind Fastly so it didn't have any impact on it. We've now moved mastodon.online behind Fastly and will do the same with mastodon.social soon.

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@Gargron thank you πŸ™

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kctipton

@Gargron What is Fastly? Like Cloudflare ?

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Christian P. MOMON

@Gargron So you allow Fastly to collect metadata from all your users and submit it to trading, to the Patriot Act, to the Cloud Act, to the NSA…
This is a nightmare 😱
And it is NOT it compliant with GDPR. Please stop this and keep fighting for freedom.

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@Gargron Please fix IPv6 connectivity. 😒

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@Gargron
Thank you!

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Jef Poskanzer :batman:

@Gargron You should have used more tubes

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Sofia Kovalevskaya

@Gargron Excuse me, What is a DDoS?

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Karen E. Lund πŸ’™πŸ’›

@Gargron I had a little trouble earlier, so I guess this explains it. The price of success for Mastodon, I suppose.

Thanks for taking steps to prevent future attacks.

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RealSolo

@Gargron I see those Musk fanboys are at it again.

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Yeri

@Gargron any specific reason you picked fastly over cloudflare ?

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basisbit

@Gargron How do you cover the increase in costs caused by this? Any plans to on-demand deliver static files (media) from a cheap server acting as reverse-proxy, and only switch to pulling that content through expensive fastly during time of overload?
I do something similar for a big image hosting website and it saves them a lot of money at acceptable tradeoff.

Might be worth it to extend the resilience of Mastodon endpoints for the whole community and establish best practices.. πŸ₯Ί

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Neal Rauhauser

@Gargron congrats!

Because "important enough to DDoS" is one of those growth milestones :-)

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CaliCarol

@Gargron Congratulations on being such a threat to the bad guys in this world that they are seriously coming after you. We all knew what was happening and why. Keep up the good work.

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Benjamin Young Savage (ᐱᓐᒋᐱᓐ)

@Gargron thank you!

I have a mastodon.social support question, where is the best way to send that?

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Rafael PΓ©rez :verify: πŸŽ„πŸŽ

@Gargron Who would DDOS something like a Mastodon instance? Idiots.

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aseking

@Gargron

Good job and thank you. πŸ‘

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Sundar

@Gargron thank you for all the hard work!

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Nemo_bis 🌈

@Gargron Remember to update the #privacy policy to tell #MastodonSocial users about the transfer of personal data towards the USA, as per #GDPR and #SchremsII.
gdprhub.eu/Article_44_GDPR

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Michael Vilain

@Gargron I'd be really interested in the technical discussion of this outage. If you blog about the postmortem on it, please post a link.

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Lisa

@Gargron It appears it may have happened Wed late eve-Thurs early morn as well.

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