Heard it was DDoS attacks, which seems pretty likely.
Another benefit to using a smaller instance (or hosting your own), you don’t have to worry about this stuff

Hopefully they don’t try to mess with Beehaw, y’all are too nice :)

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    Large instances need to get Cloudflare DDoS protection because it will only get worse.

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        My instance is using Cloudflare and has no issues with federation or mobile apps (I sent this reply with Connect).

        Assuming a standard caching configuration, those services should not break under Cloudflare.

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          Sorry I should have been clearer in my original comment - the DDoS mitigation features of Cloudflare specifically affect the apps and federation, so as long as you aren’t under attack it’s business as usual

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        Oh Damn. So the community still needs to figure it out…

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      But you can still DDoS with federation. I’m not sure how we’d avoid breaking the idea that anyone can make a server and start federating immediately. Federation naturally is an automated task, so can’t get past this protection.