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Since the morning today, l had been unable to access my feddit.online account. It's only in the evening that things are slowly coming back to normal.

Did such a thing happen primarily due to a traffic jam in the fediverse ??

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[–] FriendOfDeSoto@startrek.website 3 points 20 hours ago

To be fair, if anything on the internet has too much traffic, it becomes unavailable. That strategy is at the heart of (D)DOS attacks.