mastodon.social is currently undergoing a major Denial of Service (DDOS) incident.

[andypiper@macaw.social]

... and nearly as soon as I posted that, m.s was back online / attack mitigated - monitoring, some ongoing instability is a possibility.

[73ms@infosec.exchange]

@halcy @andypiper maybe inspired by that at least

[thestonedonkey@beige.party]

@andypiper huh I was browsing my instance and had no problems... It's like this distributed social network thing works when it's distributed

[canvasesbypeter@mementomori.social]

@andypiper Thanks, was wondering what all that downtime was all about.

[benroyce@mastodon.social]

@andypiper

still flaky

intermittent 503s

[lrt_writes@mstdn.party]

@andypiper IMHO, that's why we need to spread out, folks.
#mastodon #fediverse

[hipsterelectron@circumstances.run]

@andypiper i have been reading out toots i linked like an old school teletype service

[andypiper@macaw.social]

@benroyce please bear with us, it is indeed ongoing

[andypiper@macaw.social]

@lrt_writes I personally strongly agree, and the org also has plans to help with this (per our FOSDEM talk). Distributing things makes the system more resilient.

[landelare@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@andypiper For weeks? 🤨 I must be reading that image wrong.

[tomi@social.rozman.info]

@andypiper@macaw.social I thought that 1. my wifi os broken, 2. tusky is broken before i even thought about that mastodon.social is down. I hope you resolve it soon.
Otoh, no biggie, i have several other fedi accounts. The beauty of fediverse.