Someone is trying really hard to hurt Lemmy by continually attacking the most popular instance. Is this all coming from right-wingers upset that their nazi instances were defederated across basically the whole fediverse?

So, from memory there has been:

• This recent attack
• Regular DDOS attacks
• Frequent attempts to spam community creation
• That one time the instance got hacked and set to redirect to shock sites

Am I missing anything?

This seems like more than just a few trolls. Maybe someone really doesn't want to see user-owned social media take off.

big F in chat for those of you dealing with this. my #1 fear about setting upand instance.

Why do these deranged fucks do this

I literally am going to give up social media in general if this doesn't stop

Seen it last night late around 3am shit made me sick I honestly almost cried but I just closed the app and tried not to think about it

Whatever the goal is it's a stark reminder that there is monsters creeping in the shadows every where you go

Likely scum moves from reddit patriots to destroy or weaken the fediverse.

I remember when Murdoch hired that Israeli tech company in Haifa to find weaknesses is TV smart cards and then leaked it to destroy their market by flooding counterfit smart cards.

They are getting desperate along with those DDOS attacks.

I got lucky. I am not subscribed to this community, and I am the only person on my instance. But what if I was subscribed and hadn't seen this post? This is too much responsibility for me.

I just shut down my instance until we can disable cached images. If that never happens, then I'm not bringing it back up.

Shout-out to https://github.com/wescode/lemmy_migrate. I moved my subscriptions over in a minute or two, and now, other than not having my post history, it's exactly the same.

Yup. Nope.

Pictrs is just completely disabled now. Rather be safe, then sorry.

How desperate to destroy Lemmy must you be to spam CSAM on communities and potentially get innocent people into trouble?

What's CSAM?

i’d love for a good tech journalist to look into how and why this is happening and do a full write-up on it. come on ars, verge, vice

Self hoster here, im nuking all of pictrs. People are sick. Luckily I did not see anything, however I was subscribed to the community.

• Did a shred on my entire pictrs volume (all images ever):

sudo find /srv/lemmy/example.com/volumes/pictrs -type f -exec shred {} \;

• Removed the pictrs config in lemmy.hjson

• removed pictrs container from docker compose

Anything else I should to protect my instance, besides shutting down completely?

I went ahead and just deleted my entire pictrs cache and will definitely disable caching other servers images when it becomes available.

To be clear, if no one on a given instance sub to that particular /c, the content won't federate to said instance, correct?

blocked lemmyshitpost some time age because it is trash anyway

I was looking into self hosting. What can I do to avoid dealing with this? Can I not cache images? Would I get in legal trouble for being federated with an instance being spammed?

I checked and there shouldn't be any images stored on the server when running lemmy 1.18.4. The post was made in high emotional distress and shouldn't be taken at a face value. If the posts are bothering you I advise purging the posts in question. (I have already done that)