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What shithole?

Ok just want to make it clear that we never suspected Hexbear to be involved. This started before we defederated with them.

He is not simping, it's his instance so ofcourse he is giving his POV

It's one of the reasons why we set the default to 'all' instead of 'local' on LW

Which we did at LW. They started spamming some communities with this and we defederated.

Lemmy World defederated as soon as we became aware of this instance.

It is created by @[email protected] who said this was something requested by many but we really didn't see the advantage of it.

We do not make up for 50% of the active users. Also we have plenty of moderators and admins, reports get handled pretty fast. It's up to the community moderators first but if it takes too long one of the admins will step in.

And we will never close registrations.

No this had nothing to do with Hexbear

*allegedly

We are not sure who was behind the ddos. It could have been that guy or it could have been users from exploding-heads.com because we defederated with them.

Or it could just as well have been an admins from another instance that didn't like LW was the biggest instance.

The only thing that was sure was that they knew very well how Lemmy worked and which actions caused the heaviest load on the server.

We couldn't handle the ddos at times, the influx was never the problem. Every time that did become a problem we upgraded the hardware.

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