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…

  • Ruud@lemmy.worldM
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    1 year ago

    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.

  • thetreesaysbark@sh.itjust.works
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    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.

    • lazynooblet@lazysoci.al
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      1 year ago

      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.

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    1 year ago

    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.

    • 001100 010010@lemmy.dbzer0.comOP
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      1 year ago

      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.