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Sure but maybe something less centralized/proprietary would be preferable
Such as?
Nothing. DDoS mitigation is inherently an ISP or someone like cloudflare. You will not have success against anybody who knows what they are doing without their help.
Is βdecentralisedβ the new βblockchainβ?
Well, no. Unlike the blockchain, decentralized platforms aren't snake oil.
Why are the Lemmy devs asking for snake oil on their Donate page then?
Sitting comfy in a country where the financial system works for you elites is the real snake oil.
Just because you're smart at writing code doesn't mean you're smart at other things :) Or more likely, maybe they're ideology-driven rather than by practicality.
Lemmy is an unusual but fortunate example of where ideology and practicality line up.
If you can find an entire nation state that runs on crypto currency with a functional, stable economy, I'll eat my words.
........what are you even talking about? Your sentence makes zero sense.
100% of the crypto hate I see is from citizens of neocolonial states. You lord your control of the financial system over us and when something threatens it, it's always delegitimised for any number of reasons.
Take your pick: scam, destroying the environment, eroding state power etc.
A decentralised system/society will need a value layer to transact. You think Visa should be in control of that?
Just because you don't like it, doesn't make it snake oil. I hope you never find yourself at the mercy of a government that persecutes you and imposes capital control so you can't even run away with your money. If crypto existed when my people were literally being genocided, my parents would not have to end up in a new country with nothing to their name.
Blockchain can bring trust and thus monetisation to a decentralised network. A good example is the Tor network, which is based on voluntariness, and dVPNs, which can have the same network architecture, but where the nodes are paid for their services.
this is a meme right
It is obviously not. Why would it be?
Which viable alternative could work to mitigate ddos?
Out of my head, I think OVH offers such a service (but without free tier).
HAProxy has some really good features a server admin can use locally without sending all of our data to Cloudflare or OVH.
https://www.haproxy.com/blog/application-layer-ddos-attack-protection-with-haproxy
There are many protection modules for most reverse proxies that provide basic (limiting) or sophisticated (captcha, calculation challenge, etc) DDoS protection. HAProxy is just a very powerful and easily extensible proxy.
Sure, but you still have to pay for servers to run the proxy instances on. Any DDoS of appreciable size will knock over the number of instances that lemmy.world could stand up. Interesting thought, though. Maybe CloudFlare or others use HAProxy internally? I'm actually not sure what tech they use
What a
This isn't a helpful reply. There's no reason to just call someone a name without even explaining why you think what he said is moronic.
That's easier said than done, DDoS mitigation requires a large amount of servers that are only really useful to persist an active DDoS attack. It's why everyone uses Cloudflare, because of the amount of customers they serve there's pretty much always an active attack to fend off. Decentralization wouldn't work great for it because you would have to trust every decentralized node not to perform man in the middle attacks. But if you know of any such solution I'd love to hear it.
Yeah I see the issue but on the other side you would get a more robust network which could also be incentivised by some sort of underlying blockchain technology. The man in the middle attack could also be mitigated on a technical level.
You can't mitigate a man in the middle attack on a technical level... Because they are a man in the middle... That's the point of using DDoS mitigation. Nothing's stopping them from just sending incoming traffic to a phishing site if a bad actor was in control of it.
I block anyone who mentions a blockchain.
Blockchains are bullshit.
Wait whaat?
Chances are that you're being sarcastic, but in the event you're not or if others want to learn...
Interesting tech. Almost zero practically useful applications.
Blockchains are effectively reproducible, verifiable ledger systems. But if the ledger grows infinitely, your storage and compute costs also grow infinitely. I've heard this has been solved, but I haven't seen an implementation yet. (If anyone knows of one, please share!)
Another issue is the proofing system. Bitcoin uses proof of work, which means you need to do more computational work to produce new blocks on the chain. If the computational work grows, that means you need more and more powerful computers. This means increased cost which means centralization as participants with less money to pay for compute get pushed out. Alternatively, there's proof of stake, where having some amount of a token or some similar value/stake allows you to write new blocks. This does reduce the computation cost but still causes those with lots of tokens/stake to get even more tokens/stake, which in turn allows them to spend more for new blocks... which creates a loop towards centralization.
So basically, the technology that preaches decentralization naturally centralizes in practical use over time.
Oh man, you lost me at blockchain.
Dunno if this guy is just so stupid or is trolling at this point. Using random tech buzzwords that have no relevance to the issue.
Youβve never blockchained your decentralized DDoS backend with a bi-duplex CDN enumerator?
Well I did mitigate an attack before using quantum entanglement calibrated against the cosmological constant to mitigated carbon decay. Does that count? Oh and, blockchain and decentralized. Haha
You had me until you mentioned blockchain technology. How would a blockchain system help in that regard, anyway?
You are smoking crack. You clearly do not know what you are talking about.