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[โ€“] dan1101@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'm guessing hundreds of thousands of uninformed users are getting blocked from subreddits and are constantly retrying.

[โ€“] planish@sh.itjust.works 18 points 1 year ago

They could also be having to check lots of people against the lists of who is allowed in what private subs. Which could in turn cause problems if the code there assumes that usually people are allowed in the private subs they visit and relies on that to be fast.

Not sure that there were any private subs with tens of millions of disallowed subscribers before this morning.

[โ€“] eletes@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

More likely bots than people if they're hitting it that hard

[โ€“] kiwifoxtrot@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That'd be an interesting twist.

[โ€“] god@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

self-fulfilled prophecy. block the bots & get accidentally ddos'd by the lil bots u tried to kill