mastodon.social, mastodon.online and joinmastodon.org were hit by a DDoS yesterday, thankfully joinmastodon.org was already behind Fastly so it didn't have any impact on it. We've now moved mastodon.online behind Fastly and will do the same with mastodon.social soon.

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1. Chris Trottier (atomicpoet@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 01-Feb-2023 16:08:47 JST Chris Trottier

   So the DDoS attacker was targeting the Fediverse!

   What's the clue? They targeted joinmastodon.org.

   That's pertinent because joinmastodon.org is the site where new users go to find a suitable instance.

   In other words, this wasn't just about someone with an axe to grind against @Gargron.

   They were actively trying to prevent people from registering for a Mastodon account on *other* instances.

   https://mastodon.social/@Gargron/109786290644576574