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Who the fuck has such a problem with this instance?
It's a great question. What's the motivation? Who loses if Lemmy succeeds?
Rivals such as Reddit, the groups who benefit from the ease at which they can manipulate what people see on Reddit to further their agendas (companies, governments, groups).
And fascists in general, who hate open global community platforms that are hard to control, and hate things that bring people together, things that give people strength to fight together against things bigger than them.
All it takes is one of those interested parties to fund a couple of low rent hackers to poke at Lemmy until it's so unstable and untrustworthy that people stop using it.
Cheap and effective if done right, a good investment in the long run for any discerning fascist.
I doubt it would be company rivals for the time being. Lemmy is nowhere big enough, and even the largest instances are dwarfed by either other social networks, or other projects like Mastodon.
Reddit has much more of a concern for Facebook or Twitter trying to co-opt their model, than some small open source project, like how Meta released Threads during the recent Twitter controversy.
Spez loses. Maybe he's the one behind it cause he's salty that people called him out for being a pedophile.
Yeah it's definitely a targeted campaign of sabotage. I'm glad people have found a way to stem the flow, but we'll need a better solution long term.
It wouldn't surprise me if an associate of reddit (or someone they hired at arms length) was responsible for the DDOS attacks, but I highly doubt reddit as a company is hiring anyone to spam CSAM.
Think about what sort of motivations and personality someone would have to do it. IMO it's the guy who got butthurt over not being able to spam and threatened that he would wreck the site.
I know; I'm just being sarcastic. I didn't think I had to pull out the /s here on Lemmy, cause everyone here seems more intelligent (for the most part).
The motivation could also be just trying to get the instance shut down, or otherwise break it, like the user that was spamming communities not that long ago.
Nothing too conspiratorial.
I don't think either a corporate entity or another instance/software type is behind this. The motivation for these people is the same as those who used to post a certain image with the word 'goat' as part of the title all over usenet binary groups and web forums. They simply find it funny that so many people are appalled and they feel a sense of power that they've affected so large a community. There's nothing more complicated than that to it.
Exactly.
The odds are no one. To the trolls this isn't meant to be a personal attack against a server they don't like. They just want to wreck havoc and cause shock to anywhere. It just so happens they discovered lemmy shit posting.
I was thinking in combination with the ddos attack, personally I believe they're the same people doing this, obviously not everybody will share that belief
Yup. It's this. This is the mentality behind trolling. The point is to antagonize people just to get a reaction. That's all they care about. They want to do the most outrageous thing in a public space because they know people will respond and they think its funny when people react to anything they do.
People need to realize: They want to get banned. They want you to try and sit around figuring out why they're doing this.
... I can think of one possibility - an instance known that lemmy.world recently defederated from.
Last week an explodingheads shithead kept posting racist (Also antisemitic etc etc) "memes". People told them to get fucked. It was wonderful to see everyone be incredibly mean to the fucker.
If we know one thing about nazis, it's that when they get busted for any crime, they always end up finding csam as well. So wouldn't suprise me if some nazi got angry because they weren't welcome here and cracked open his personal collection
Huh, interesting. I was thinking hexbear because of the tianmen square post
Step 1: Go on the internet and say some shit. Step 2: Get moderated off your favorite website. Step 3: RAGE