{"p":"","h":{"iv":"ROXSYW+cfvEbFHu5","at":"ocxplSQjdRC3tXEtB/9/wg=="}}

Everything is back to normal now. Yes, it was an attack, not legitimate traffic. No, we don't know who was behind it. I agree the timing with Twitter being down was unfortunate.

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andrew!

@Gargron maybe the api team at twitter got reassigned to ddos attack mastodon

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Alex

@Gargron Elon did it.

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@Gargron when I couldn't log in I knew. Cost of becoming popular man, target on the back gets bigger. Ah well. Fault tolerance for the win!

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Victorhck

@Gargron 💪

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Eugen Rochko

Fastly and Datadog who both sponsor us by providing us a free service were instrumental in analyzing and mitigating the attack. Shout out to our own team as well, glad I don't have to do this alone anymore!

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beforewisdom

@timberwraith

It is a prelude to invasion. Those aliens whose UFOs we shot down.

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Esceedee

@Gargron thanks for all the hard work!

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@CharleneTeglia

@Gargron Weird way to spell suspicious

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John Carlsen

@Gargron

I still see this via US-CA-SJ:

Error 403 Forbidden
Forbidden

Error 54113
Details: cache-sjc10058-SJC 1678140947 872542668

Varnish cache server

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Marten Tjaden

@Gargron Thank you so much 😊 🙏

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Carole Paré Payne

@Gargron thank you for all you do on our behalf

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Darwin Woodka

@Gargron ty for all you do!

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benda

@Gargron so then the ddos attack on mastodon.social has nothing to do with stoners.social being down? bc that instance is still down and we were given no heads up. im rebuilding from scratch over here.

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MrShoggoth

@Gargron - Thanks for your attention!

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Lena

@Gargron thank you!

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DHeadshot's Alt

@Gargron I'm getting 403 errors trying to access the site - am I blocked then? I didn't do anything apart from try to load my timeline while you were down!

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undergroundbeef

@Gargron They must have some code over a twitter that goes something like.... while (twitter_status == down) { ddos_mastodon() }

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Nameless

@Gargron My conspiracy theory of the moment: Elon rerouted all the API calls this way.

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Dr. Jorge Caballero

@Gargron Third time in 2 weeks that the timing is "unfortunate" for a major Mastodon server or API endpoint 👀

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Toni

@Gargron A mi no me funciona #mastodonsocial en España.

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