Apparently mastodon.social is undergoing a massive #DDoS that brought it down, which may or may not be related to the disservice experienced by #BlueSky last week.

Apparently mastodon.social is undergoing a massive #DDoS that brought it down, which may or may not be related to the disservice experienced by #BlueSky last week. Of course, this being the #Fediverse, the only measurable effect for the majority of Fedizens will be some reduction of traffic on their timelines, depending on which fraction of their followings are on that instance.

And this is why #ActivityPub, with all its deficiencies, is still better than #ATProto.

@oblomov oh, I didn't even notice, no slowdown, no nothing

@luca @oblomov Actually, things got a little bit quicker, for a time.

@khleedril @luca is incredible how quickly one can catch up in the morning when the flagship instance is down!

@oblomov@sociale.network and nothing of value was lost

Just kidding of course, there are many cool accounts on dot social

As a self-hoster, everything is as fast/slow as usual for me, but since most accounts I follow are hosted on Mastodon Social, the timeline has felt a bit unpopulated for sure. Projects like @HolosSocial will certainly help by making the #Fediverse even more distributed, although the relay remains an attackable chokepoint for malicious actors.