Outage in mastodon.social
DDoS attack in progress
Resolved Major
April 23, 2026 - Started 13 days ago
- Lasted about 20 hours
Incident Report
We are (again) targeted by a DDoS attack and [mastodon.social](http://mastodon.social) may not be available while we mitigate it.
Components affected
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Latest Updates ( sorted recent to last )
IDENTIFIED
13 days ago - at 04/23/2026 09:48AM
We are (again) targeted by a DDoS attack and [mastodon.social](http://mastodon.social) may not be available while we mitigate it.
MONITORING
13 days ago - at 04/23/2026 10:05AM
We have enabled DDoS protection methods, and services is mostly restored. We still continue to monitor the situation.
MONITORING
13 days ago - at 04/23/2026 10:40AM
The attack seems to have stopped. We are continuing to monitor the situation.
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