Finally, after 4 months, I can reach beehaw again. Was beehaw under attack? (beehaw.org)

submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by debanqued@beehaw.org to c/support@beehaw.org

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For the past four months beehaw has been unreachable to those of us on the Tor network. Glad to see access was finally restored. Was there an attack?

I could really use a way to periodically backup my posts to my local disk so if Tor is spontaneously blocked again I at least have my history. I’ve not found a Lemmy equivalent for Mastodon Archive.

(edit) For security, it would be a good idea to setup an onion instance. The Tor network has built-in DDoS protection for onion hosts.

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[-] debanqued@beehaw.org 1 points 1 month ago

You say for suspicious users, but for the 4-month stretch of beehaw being unreachable there was no opportunity to login. So there was apparently a user agnostic systemwide change.

[-] Penguincoder@beehaw.org 1 points 1 month ago

Actions on site and web traffic/use, behavior to Beehaw indicate suspicious users for our purposes. TOR and VPN use does increase those metrics/probability, but is not the sole determining reason.