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[–] [email protected] 169 points 2 years ago (9 children)

Who would be so pissed at lemmy.world to DDoS them?

They might want to consider using Cloudflare or a similar solution if they don't already.

[–] [email protected] 112 points 2 years ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 163 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Brands don't have to do shit like this. They have weird trolls with weirder parasocial relationships to intellectual property to do it for them, unprompted.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 years ago

It’s the rise spezkin. Super Reddit Hyper Loyalists so invested in their upcoming karma farming fortunes that any threat to Reddit gets met with scorched earth tactics.

…I’m only kidding, I hope this doesn’t become a thing.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 2 years ago (1 children)

he's an astroturfer though, is he really low enough to stoop to ddos? thankfully the fediverse is diverse and resilient to attacks to any one instance lol

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 years ago (1 children)

He'd be. But his fanbois already do that for him so he doesn't have to do it himself and worry about consequences.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago

No, I mean his fanbois. His employees would get paid to do that stuff and then there would also again be a way for him to bear the consequences. His fanbois don't get paid and he doesn't bear the risk.

[–] small44 33 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Probably just a terrible person who is bored

[–] [email protected] 42 points 2 years ago

As a terrible person who is bored, that seems like too much work

[–] lemmyshmemmy 8 points 2 years ago
[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yes something like Cloudflare would be very good. Even I have it on my tiny test instance.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It doesn't break federation? I recall it broke federation for kbin, thought it'd be the same for Lemmy sue to the underlying tech being the same.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

It definitely works with Lemmy, but that could certainly explain an issue I’ve been having with kbin!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Or ThreatX, I believe they are more inexpensive than CF

[–] ghariksforge 3 points 2 years ago
[–] nocturne213 3 points 2 years ago

That lmao dude that kept creating spam communities?

[–] WiseMoth 3 points 2 years ago

I couldn’t load anything on Mlem for a few minutes but other than that it’s just been slow for me

[–] [email protected] -5 points 2 years ago

inb4 lemmygrad