Hey there! I tried loading up beehaw from my computer, and I am getting hit with a crowd sec ban? I can still access just fine from jerboa and mobile, so I'm not sure what's going on. Is anyone else getting hit by this? Did my ip get banned for some reason?

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[–] Penguincoder 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Thanks for bringing this to our attention. Yes, Crowdsec is a protection mechanism in place to try and stop bad actors/bruteforce attacks.

I just cleared everyone on this certain blocklist, which means you should be good for now, again.

Sorry this was happening to you and other users.

[–] mustyOrange 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Awesome, I appreciate it! Going forward, is there anything I should do to make the chances of that happening less likely?

[–] Penguincoder 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No, this isn't your or any other users fault. It's due to the way Lemmy interacts with the backend, and was hitting some rate limit issues which made it look like an 'attack'. From a LOT of different users. Also known as a distributed denial of service attack. Not your fault!

Thanks again for bringing to our attention, I'll keep an eye on this one.

[–] mustyOrange 3 points 1 year ago

makes sense. Thanks!

[–] Glod 2 points 1 year ago

Much appreciated - this allowed me back in as well, thank you for the quick resolution!