Mastodon says its flagship server was hit by a DDoS attack

Mastodon says its flagship server was hit by a DDoS attack

The DDoS attack against Mastodon's flagship server comes less than a week after Bluesky was targeted with junk web traffic.

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The DDoS attack against Mastodon’s flagship server comes less than a week after Bluesky was targeted with junk web traffic.

Why did Mastodon’s server go down?

Mastodon says its flagship server hit by DDoS Mastodon said its flagship server was struck by a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack, which rendered the instance unusable at times. In other words, the service couldn’t reliably respond because malicious traffic overwhelmed the…