@Gargron someone's salty that mastodon is still up

@Gargron Just in time for Twitter to shit the bed :blobcatmeltcry:

@Gargron Thank you for handling it, big guns

@Gargron wonder if another service has spent more resources on DDoS than maintaining their own site, seeing as this coincides with them being down…

@Gargron thank goodness for Eugen! what would we do without him ... the world would be a much darker place

@Gargron Meanwhile, the other social network DoS-ed itself...

{"errors":[{"message":"Your current API plan does not include access to this endpoint, please see https://developer.twitter.com/en/docs/twitter-api for more information","code":467}]}

@Gargron twitter is down, could it be genuine traffic?

@Gargron

Could it be related to the #TwitterDown incident?

@Gargron Might have something to do with Twitter being down and everyone and their mother trying to use Mastodon at once?

@Gargron same time as twitter being broken... coincidence?

@Gargron Elon's got nothing better to do now that Twitter's down, presumably.

@gargron Are you sure it's DDOS?

and not quite many people coming over from the other "social" network that is down? ;D

@Gargron It looks like twitter's down. Maybe just massive influx of new people?

@Gargron Nah, just everyone coming over from Twitter to complain 😀

@Gargron external links aren't working on twitter

@Gargron Elon having a tantrum because his precious vanity project is down?

@Gargron Thanks for handling. Any guess on motive?

@Gargron Twitters down too.

@Gargron I forget who, but someone noted these happen around the time Twitter has significant issues. Fancy that.

@Gargron Good luck resolving it sir.

@Gargron Site loads fine for me. Resolved?

@Gargron ✊🏻

@Gargron Twitter's working

@Gargron Are we sure it isn't just a massive rush from people abandoning #twitter?

@Gargron Nice that federation results in a working Mastodon experience for most not being interrupted.

In theory, I suppose, you could have a secondary account on another instance following the same people and have built in personal redundancy.

@Gargron yep. World wide culture war stuff. They fear Mastadon!

@Gargron Do you happen to know who is doing it? Are you willing to day?

@Gargron ohh 🥲

@Gargron Gees, why do people do this stuff, seems for some so hard to leave other people's things alone.

@Gargron Everything working fine for me right now, so whilst it still is...

🔶 Find #JohnMastodon 🔶

He'll know what to do.

@Gargron thank you and the entire team for all the hard work keeping everything running as smoothly as possible.

@Gargron This sucks, truly, and yet also shows how incredible decentralized infrastructure is for a platform.

(This is an example of something I'd quote-toot, and I'm still not sure how that is "properly" done... I didn't screenshot because I know the concept is offensive to you personally. Anyway, as to the original toot, thanks for making a platform so open and resilient.)

@Gargron Already noticed ...

@Gargron Good luck to you guys in weathering the storm. ❤️ #fediverse

Looks like the DDoS attackers forgot to take down every other Mastodon instance... I didn't even know this until somebody else mentioned it.

@Gargron Is it still ongoing?

@Gargron

@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 Who would do this, and why?

@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!

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.

@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 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! 🤪

@Gargron hang in there. Doing great. No complaints.

@Gargron what about cdrom.tokyo?

@Gargron
Thank you to all the team‼️🙏🙏🙏🙏

@Gargron good luck in your work! 💖

@Gargron anyway we can help prevent this in future?

@Gargron must’ve been some petulant billionaire unhappy that he’s enshittified what he took from others and that he can’t control the narrative. Wonder who that might be ..

@Gargron someone must’ve been really upset by my post after today’s outage at the bird app.

@Gargron Is mastodon.social under attack again? The search function is not working for me.

@Gargron

Does it waddle and quack like the RU mafia state?

And they thought turning twtr into their propaganda and terrorist mush via their psycho puppet was going to be enough.