@Gargron thank you for all you’re doing 🙏🏽

@Gargron Re-centralisation ;)

Okay, half of the Mastodon instances are running at Hetzner, we're already at clustered infrastructure anyways.

@Gargron Thank you very much!

@Gargron Make sure you prevent spoofing…

Drop any incoming Fastly-Client-IP stuff coming in to fastly from external as per this page: https://developer.fastly.com/reference/http/http-headers/Fastly-Client-IP/

Drop any incoming X-Forwarded-For stuff coming in to fastly from external as per this page: https://developer.fastly.com/reference/http/http-headers/X-Forwarded-For/

@Gargron is there an expected downtime when switching to Fastly??

@Gargron Thank you for your continued hard work!!

@Gargron it was only a matter of time or? Assume the worst, and proactively prepare ahead...

@Gargron
Attacking open source is definitely attacking a moving target.

@Gargron Were there any demands made? Any logical reason for it? Or just a bunch of script kiddies screwing around for the heck of it? Did Elon discover LOIC/HOIC? 😛

@Gargron keep up the great work!!

@Gargron
Thank you so much for the good work, Eugen. 👍

@Gargron 🙌

@Gargron Are there some forces want mastodon to be silent?

@Gargron glad it went away.

@Gargron you rock!!

@Gargron Thanks, for update. Is Mindly safe(r), now ?

@Gargron props to the Fastly sales team?

@Gargron
They are preparing another one

@Gargron are you allowed to discuss the nature of the attack (e.g., the client IPs, whether a person or group is suspected, other possibly relevant info)?

@Gargron Any idea why it happened?

Thank you so much Team @Gargron. 😍

@Gargron thank you for all your work

@Gargron I'm extremely happy that an alternative to the monopoly of Cloudflare was found and I hope very much that it works for you.

@Gargron Thanks for all that you keep on doing

@Gargron thank you!

@Gargron

@Gargron

love you smarties.
smart for us who ain't.

@Gargron what about mastodon.world?

@Gargron 我说我怎么昨天上午什么东西发不出来，还以为周柏豪定律呢，结果我这个站点被DOS攻击了。

@Gargron

What information will Fastly get ?

@Gargron May I ask what Fastly offers over Cloudflare? Curious what the benefit is over the big player.

@Gargron
@Arne_radelt schau mal

@Gargron Let me know if you have any issues or want help with that migration.

@Gargron Great work! 🙌

@Gargron @stroughtonsmith As the Fastly SME at my company, I’m excited to see how Fastly is partnering with Mastodon! (More than just what’s mentioned below).

@Gargron thank you 🙏

@Gargron Please fix IPv6 connectivity. 😢

@Gargron
Thank you!

@Gargron You should have used more tubes

@Gargron Excuse me, What is a DDoS?

@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.

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

@Gargron any specific reason you picked fastly over cloudflare ?

@Gargron Why are multiple instances being run by the same org? Isn't this supposed to be decentralized? Seems precarious.

@Gargron thank you!

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

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

@Gargron

Good job and thank you. 👍

@Gargron thank you for all the hard work!

@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.
https://gdprhub.eu/Article_44_GDPR

@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.

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

@Gargron noobs 😎

@Gargron going to buy Fastly stock to backup Mastodon 😁

@Gargron 🤷🏻‍♀️ The “good” news of this attack is that it shows that Mastodon seems already important enough to spend time and energy for attacking it.

Soon Twitter will be forgotten and people start to realize that Mastodon 🥰 will be a much better and relaxed alternative

#GoMastodon #SupportMastodon #MastodonTheBetterAlternative #MastodonIsEasyToUse #BoycottTwitter #BoycottTesla #InsaneMusk #DictatorMusk #RussiaLoverElonMusk #TwitterIsDestroyingOurDemocracy

@Gargron looks like two nights in a row. I'm sorry it is happening but I'm not going anywhere. They can slow the system down but they can't win back the people they lost

@Gargron GDPR ? 😂

@Gargron weird how these DDoS attacks are suddenly happening, makes you wonder just how scared the traditional socials that rely on stealing your data really are.

@Gargron People are getting nervous about us. Proves we're growing more important...

#Mastodon #Twitter #SocialMedia #DDoS #TheResistanceWillBeFederated

@Gargron Not sure if you get any support from Fastly and/or are already aware of it but they offer support for OSS communities via https://www.fastly.com/fast-forward which may be worth a look if you've not already.

@Gargron hey Eugen, hättest Du Lust, Mal bei uns im https://workingdraft.de/ Podcast über Mastodon zu erzählen? Wir sind ein Web Entwickler Podcast mit Schwerpunkt Frontend, reden aber sehr gerne auch über artverwandte Themen.

@Gargron Thank you!!!

@Gargron ✊🏻💪🏻

@Gargron Thanks for taking care of this. Very much appreciated.

@Gargron test

@Gargron Thanks, for taking those actions!

@Gargron Oh wow, NSA CDN. Peace out.

@Gargron Why can't I see all interactions under toots? When I open toot in a non-logged in browser I see more boosts added to favorites and comments.

@Gargron

What about the websockets?

@Gargron
It appears not to have been a DDOS as much as someone using DO to set up some badly configured instances. Reported it to them and it should have gone away sometime after 9 am yesterday.
Hope that helped!

@Gargron Must be doing something right.

@Gargron 长毛象CEO说最近平台受到攻击，请问，您觉得最有动机去攻击长毛象的，是——

@Gargron 🙏

@Gargron just saying… our firm has been working with @cloudflare for quite some time and they’re absolutely amazing.