Many Australians descend from people the English sentenced to death or life imprisonment who were housed on prison barges before being shipped to Australia.

Mexico might not be sending the USA their best, but England inadvertently sent Australia their best.

We already sit behind the Akami DDOS prevention system. I do not think cloudflare would be any more effective.

When I look at the server - I am seeing the same behavior I saw when the big Lemmy instances started upgrading to v18. And these recent problems started when they started upgrading to release candidates for v18.3 - So I think this is a Lemmy federation problem not DDOS attacks.

We have plenty of bandwidth - do not even coming close to using it all. When we have these problems I am seeing spikes in CPU usage (normally 10% but spikes to 150% when we see these issues) and Disk I/O.

We plan upgrading the version of Lemmy we are running this weekend to see if that makes a difference.

Not in the USA. They had to divest it to get a merger approved

I can imagine.

And he had such a serious look on his face.

I cannot even remember who the people were now.

One of the communities was discussing gender stuff. I can’t remember the others, but I am sure you saw them mentioned if you followed the defederation debates on some of the other instances.

I got sucker punched by a few. Here is what happened.

I get a message from someone on a different instance saying they are setting up a community with similar interests to one I currently moderate. They ask if I can help get their community going by posting some of the things I currently post, which trying to be helpful I do.

Within a week or two, they are using those posts as an excuse for defederation because we are invading their instance.

I have learnt my lesson. Will not be so helpful in the future.

Let me know as I cross post a lot of URLs - sort of using communities like tags.

But if it is appearing multiple times to logged in users, I will need to change my approach.

Hmmm

For me as long as there is a URL to link on, they only appear once.

If there is no URL, then it will appear multiple times. That is a Lemmy thing I have no control over.

Is it working differently for you?

It you are logged into Exploding Heads they appear as a single post

It simply you do not mindlessly parrot the regime narrative, therefore you must be destroyed.

This came in with v18.

I am hoping they fix it in v18.1

Less bots the better

You as an individual blocking their communities and users you do not wish to see is the best bet.

I want to avoid defederation where ever possible.

As a user, you can block either people or communities but not whole instances.

If you are an admin running an instance, you can do it through the admin settings.

How am I going to drink my Bud Lite if I don’t have s straw?

I suspect if the want the data, they will set up an innocent looking instance to get it.

There would have to be a really good reason apart from Zuck hate

A lot of high achievers do not drink.

We are defederated from lemmy.juggler.jp till we find out what is going on.

I can see a lot of their users are being blocked by other instances.

Thanks for the heads up.