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At this point, many people have been bailing from the server due to the uptime issues. What's the rub?

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[-] fiat_lux@kbin.social 18 points 1 year ago

Massive amounts of organic traffic to too small a server technically is a DDOS, even if unintentional rather than malicious. So, both to varying degrees, probably?

[-] MoreThanCorrect@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

Isn't that what was termed the reddit hug of death?

[-] fiat_lux@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

It was indeed, but maybe with a slightly different nuance of 'going viral' - still a DDOS.

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