[tdstein]

Smells like a DDoS.

It's difficult to know if it is a coordinated attack or an unexpected side effect of the protest.

HTTP/1.1 429 Too Many Requests Connection: keep-alive Content-Type: application/json Access-Control-Expose-Headers: retry-after, x-sentry-rate-limits, x-sentry-error Vary: Origin Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2023 14:49:00 GMT Content-Length: 45 Access-Control-Allow-Origin: https://www.reddit.com retry-after: 14 x-sentry-rate-limits: 14:default;error;security;attachment:organization:error_usage_exceeded

[aeyes]

That is a response from Sentry telling you that they are rate limiting error ingestion for Reddit, probably because they have a lot of errors at the moment.

[capableweb]

There is also a DDPA (Distributed Digital Preservation "Attack") ongoing that maybe make things worse too.

[rebane2001]

https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/DPoS

[thehumanmeat]

Definitely smells like some sad reddit mod got upset and is enacting "payback".

[scrum-treats]

Could be the government. Telecom is impacted as well.