They do realize that was ONE mastodon server, right?
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They do realize that was ONE mastodon server, right? @Pierluigi_Paganini, I know you know better. Wire story?
DDoS wave continues as Mastodon hit after Bluesky incident
Mastodon suffered a major DDoS attack shortly after a similar incident hit Bluesky. The outage was resolved within a few hours.
Security Affairs (securityaffairs.com)
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They do realize that was ONE mastodon server, right? @Pierluigi_Paganini, I know you know better. Wire story?
DDoS wave continues as Mastodon hit after Bluesky incident
Mastodon suffered a major DDoS attack shortly after a similar incident hit Bluesky. The outage was resolved within a few hours.
Security Affairs (securityaffairs.com)
Yes, they know better. But it is also incumbent upon Mastodon to communicate the facts effectively to the media.
This was, and still is, an opportunity to discuss the benefits of true decentralization as well as praise the swift response of Mastodon engineers.
Love Mastodon, but in the area of corporate comms they need to step it up.
Mastodon Migration (@mastodonmigration@mastodon.online)
DDoS and Corporate Communications - Mastodon and Bluesky Apparently Mastodon and Bluesky social media networks have been the targets of sophisticated DDoS attacks over the last week. This post is not about these attacks per se, but rather about the deficient job both networks have done communicating what is going on, that has left users and the media largely in the dark. @andypiper@macaw.social @Mastodon@mastodon.social @renchap@oisaur.com @MastodonEngineering@mastodon.social @mellifluousbox@mastodon.social 1/
Mastodon (mastodon.online)
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Yes, they know better. But it is also incumbent upon Mastodon to communicate the facts effectively to the media.
This was, and still is, an opportunity to discuss the benefits of true decentralization as well as praise the swift response of Mastodon engineers.
Love Mastodon, but in the area of corporate comms they need to step it up.
Mastodon Migration (@mastodonmigration@mastodon.online)
DDoS and Corporate Communications - Mastodon and Bluesky Apparently Mastodon and Bluesky social media networks have been the targets of sophisticated DDoS attacks over the last week. This post is not about these attacks per se, but rather about the deficient job both networks have done communicating what is going on, that has left users and the media largely in the dark. @andypiper@macaw.social @Mastodon@mastodon.social @renchap@oisaur.com @MastodonEngineering@mastodon.social @mellifluousbox@mastodon.social 1/
Mastodon (mastodon.online)
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Yes, they know better. But it is also incumbent upon Mastodon to communicate the facts effectively to the media.
This was, and still is, an opportunity to discuss the benefits of true decentralization as well as praise the swift response of Mastodon engineers.
Love Mastodon, but in the area of corporate comms they need to step it up.
Mastodon Migration (@mastodonmigration@mastodon.online)
DDoS and Corporate Communications - Mastodon and Bluesky Apparently Mastodon and Bluesky social media networks have been the targets of sophisticated DDoS attacks over the last week. This post is not about these attacks per se, but rather about the deficient job both networks have done communicating what is going on, that has left users and the media largely in the dark. @andypiper@macaw.social @Mastodon@mastodon.social @renchap@oisaur.com @MastodonEngineering@mastodon.social @mellifluousbox@mastodon.social 1/
Mastodon (mastodon.online)
@mastodonmigration In my dream of dreams, there would be no "Mastodon corporate communications". For instance, when the flaw was discovered in TLS 3.0, did someone call the the Head of Web to ask for a statement? No, because there isn't one. There are people who worked on the protocol; there are people who implemented it, but they're all different people all over the world. That is true of Mastodon as well and AT Proto in general.
Do you remember back in the 2010s, when if you talked to a non-technical user, they would often say, "Well, I opened Google on my laptop and looked it up." You say, "So do you mean a web browser? Do you know which web browser?" They go, "Web browser?" With a question mark. That's the kind of thing we're dealing with now in social media. The general public and much of the tech industry just assume that any given social network is a site that is controlled centrally. That just isn't the case with Mastodon, so it's a sea change and will be hard to communicate.
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@mastodonmigration In my dream of dreams, there would be no "Mastodon corporate communications". For instance, when the flaw was discovered in TLS 3.0, did someone call the the Head of Web to ask for a statement? No, because there isn't one. There are people who worked on the protocol; there are people who implemented it, but they're all different people all over the world. That is true of Mastodon as well and AT Proto in general.
Do you remember back in the 2010s, when if you talked to a non-technical user, they would often say, "Well, I opened Google on my laptop and looked it up." You say, "So do you mean a web browser? Do you know which web browser?" They go, "Web browser?" With a question mark. That's the kind of thing we're dealing with now in social media. The general public and much of the tech industry just assume that any given social network is a site that is controlled centrally. That just isn't the case with Mastodon, so it's a sea change and will be hard to communicate.
Valid point. Certainly one of the reasons that open public systems have difficulty competing with the shiny corporate alternatives. But, as you say, do we want them to? Is there some middle ground? Food for thought, thanks for sharing your perspective.
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Valid point. Certainly one of the reasons that open public systems have difficulty competing with the shiny corporate alternatives. But, as you say, do we want them to? Is there some middle ground? Food for thought, thanks for sharing your perspective.
@mastodonmigration Oddly enough, I think about this a lot. The general population has done an extraordinary job of moving from the disorganized, original 90s internet to the corporate-owned, everybody's happy because there's somebody to bitch about corporate internet. I'd like to see it go back, and I'm not entirely certain of the best way I can get involved to help that happen.
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@mastodonmigration Oddly enough, I think about this a lot. The general population has done an extraordinary job of moving from the disorganized, original 90s internet to the corporate-owned, everybody's happy because there's somebody to bitch about corporate internet. I'd like to see it go back, and I'm not entirely certain of the best way I can get involved to help that happen.
Maybe there is little one can do other than get involved in the initiatives and continue to improve them. If you take Linux as an example, it never really had a moment. It just quietly inveigled it's way into almost all server side systems. It's just better, so in time, it won out. It can take a lot of time though, and there is always the risk of being extinquished by the dark forces. This is why the advocacy for some PR and boosterism, though agree that this is a double edged sword.
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Maybe there is little one can do other than get involved in the initiatives and continue to improve them. If you take Linux as an example, it never really had a moment. It just quietly inveigled it's way into almost all server side systems. It's just better, so in time, it won out. It can take a lot of time though, and there is always the risk of being extinquished by the dark forces. This is why the advocacy for some PR and boosterism, though agree that this is a double edged sword.
@mastodonmigration Well thank you for fighting the good fight in a rational way. I am so tired of people shouting over eachother.
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@mastodonmigration Well thank you for fighting the good fight in a rational way. I am so tired of people shouting over eachother.
Back at you
