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Why do the instances keep going down? It makes me think that this is not a reliable social network, but the alternatives are not as good.

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[–] favrion@lemmy.ml -3 points 1 year ago (7 children)
[–] seang96@spgrn.com 19 points 1 year ago (6 children)

DDOS = denial of service attack. Attacker sends a bunch of requests overloading a service and causing other clients to experience.timeouts due to the service not being.abe.to.handle the load.

[–] Konlanx@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's like a group of people standing in line for the cashier and they each buy a single peanut with cash and have a question to the manager.

I like that picture, it makes it easier to understand for people who aren't that much into computers.

[–] Jivebunny@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

And now you can use that picture to even extend it with: We're currently enjoying our checkout at different registers, where there's not peanut nutjobs at the register. I like it too.

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