Did I accidentally do a DoS against lemmy.world? 😟
I clicked on a link to the comment, then I keep pressing "show context" to see the comment one level higher, then I get hit with this screen...
Kinda reminds me of that news story where one person accidentally shut down the internet of an entire country...
No, we did some rate limiting to try and fight off some attacks, but now some are too strict. We'll tune these so they won't bother you anymore.
you're browsing too hard yo
Rate limiting is a measure against dos, but you hit a rate limit before a dos happens, otherwise it's failed to do it's job.
Rate limiting stops a specific 'entity' from accessing a server too many times over a certain time period.
It only blocked you because it identified that you're hitting their servers at a higher threshold rate than server admins are comfortable with.
I think it's set somewhat sensitive as it can be triggered by visiting the home page, tapping sign in, and signing in... then being rate limited for a few minutes.
https://lemmy-world.statuspage.io/
Probably not. They're getting hit with heavy usage right now so are likely throttling everyone and you just hit that cap.
That show context link doesn't do shit for me. I thought it was just a glitch in the latest update or something. It used to work.
It sometimes work, sometimes doesn't. In this case, I tried to click the show context like 5 times within 10 seconds so cloudflare didn't like it.