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1. jonty+jx[view] [source] 2023-05-04 21:38:43
>>aendru+(OP)
This is the second time one of my posts has caused issues for the chaos.social admins. I am so, so sorry.

The hacker news DDOS is real.

Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34691489

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2. JdeBP+tD[view] [source] 2023-05-04 22:09:44
>>jonty+jx
The interesting thing to consider is that someone who is popular to read may well be as much of a headache for the local sysop as someone who is a frequent target for attacks. How long until they have a 'bot that just 429s all of your posts on sight, do you think? (-:
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3. JdeBP+qG[view] [source] 2023-05-04 22:31:45
>>JdeBP+tD
On a more serious note: Given that many user communities in the FediVerse are people conscious of their privacy and of suffering pile-ons by large majorities of outsiders, I wonder how many more examples of this there will be before people start asking the developers for out-of-the-box defaults that simply blacklist all requests that come in with referrer headers containing news.ycombinator.com and other similar "Slashdotting" sites.

It's not beyond the bounds of possibility. Compare https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/15431 .

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