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Musk claims there was a DDOS attack on X — but The Verge is told there was not.

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[–] bluemellophone@lemmy.world 56 points 3 months ago (1 children)

A live stream with tens of thousands of simultaneous viewers is, almost by definition, a scheduled DDOS. Even Apple struggled for years to get it right for their WWDC Keynote events back when they were live.