Are you having issues with Steemit today, or is it just me?

Not sure what's going on, if this is another DDOS and we will lose connecion soon but everything I do on Steemit today is followed up by an error and a need to refresh and try again. About two months ago we experienced how it's like to be under attack, as a malicious user/users tried to bring Steemit down by overloading it's network with a lot of useless requests.

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DDOS or Distributed Denial of Service attack is as it says, an attempt to deny an online service by overloading it's network with overwhelming traffic from multiple different sources making it almost impossible to stop the attack by blocking a single source. Not only that but it makes it really hard to find the true source of the attack as hackers can simply implant a malware into many different networks or computers and make a bot army they can later use to low key attack any desired website or online business.

• I noticed something was wrong when I was logged out of Steemit as I opened it. That's unusal as I'm always logged in. Tried refreshing the page and after the third attempt I was suddenly logged in.

• Then upvoting stopped working and I started receiving transaction broadcast errors as if I'm out of bandwidth or something. Some upvotes are going through, while for others take three to five attempts before they get applied.

• Commenting is also a tough one and needs some patience as every other displays a transaction broadcast error. The only way it works for me is after refreshing the page and trying again.

• And the most annoying amongst all of the problems are the sudden disconnects. For a minute everything is normal, I'm reading posts, trying to upvote and comment and all of the sudden I get asked to log in. As if I logged out.

But if I refresh the site a couple of times I get logged in again.

What's going on? Are you having the same issues? Are we are under attack or are just we experiencing some heavy traffic?

If this proves to be another DDOS, it wouldn't surprise me at all if Zuckerberg had his fingers in this as he's finally noticing the kind of disruption to his perfect world of making free money on idiots who spend time on his marketing platform while thinking it's a social media platform.

If you are on FBIbook you are:

• Getting spyied on by your phone that is listening to your conversations just so FB's algorithms can show you that perfect add, and charge more for it of course

• Read and store your every message

• Follow your every click on the site

• All of your personal information is being stored in big data centers and carefully monitored in order to see what you may like/want or need so they can feed their algorithms with needed information to present you the best product they can (the one they think you are most likely to buy)

I could go on as this is topic for a whole nother post and I'm loosing the big picture that is Steemit. And why people even bother using any other site. Literally wasting their time while they could be earning cash here.

Understand that...

Steemit is a revolution like no other. Empowering the users for the first time in the history of internet and giving them a legit chance of making an income based on their efforts and contributions to the platform. Taking away from Facebook, Instagram, What's app, Twitter, Snapchat, Google and all the other greedy corporation's hands and giving it to those who work the hardest,make quality content and contribute to the community.

I haven't seen anything like this before and for me it's truly amazing and I expect to see Steemit taking the mainstream by storm. Allowing everyone and anyone on the planet to earn money in form of cryptocurrency based on their contributions to open source projects, videos, livestreams, music, memes, blogging or anything else you would usually do online for free.

So be smart and as @pappa-pepper so greatly said

Don't waste your time online. Invest it with Steemit.com

As this could be our chance to free ourself from the unfair and corrupt monetary system that is bringing every single one of us down, expect the elite 1%.

I'm glad to be a part of this revolution and hope to bring a lot of positivity and value to the platform.