I mean, that instance had open registrations with no checks (meaning no email required, no manual approvement, no captcha). Not surprising people were misusing it - you can just automatically create hundreds of accounts in a few seconds.

Like when it happens with FOSS, admins are starting to burn out, better to have at least two people working on a instance IMO (A bus factor of more then one).

As one Admin to another, I’m sad to hear that we’re losing a good instance. And, I’m sorry that people ruined your fun.

Thanks for all you’ve done. All the best to you.

I’m really sorry to hear this. If someone wants to target an instance and create enough work so it becomes impossible to maintain it, they can.

This is why we need to spread out on many different instances. Maybe you have noticed that every time Lemmy.world is attacked, there’s almost no content anymore. We can change that by spreading out and posting from different instances.

If a few of them are attacked, then it doesn’t affect the entire fediverse.

Damn, I was just about to create an account there. I guess lemmy.studio is the only other relatively “large” instance?

I wonder if Spez has anything to do with all the DDOS attacks on so many Lemmy instances.