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What would be the probability of u/spez being behind this attack, in an attempt to sabotage lemmy?

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Well I’m blaming him regardless of his involvement

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5 points

This, to me, seems the healthiest approach.

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6 points

Indeed, never let “facts” or indeed anything like that get in the way of your opinion and the things you say!

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6 points

The Walgreens drugstore got robbed. Was their competitor, CVS, behind it?

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6 points

Probably, I don’t trust those bastards.

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24 points

Probably some bored kids.

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7 points

We don’t know that for sure: It could be bored adults who never grew up.

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How do you call an adult who never grew up if not a kid?

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27 points

Minimal. It frankly just doesn’t actually advance his goals very significantly. Nor is he a particularly clever man that thinks of unusual strategies.

I think his focus is on squeezing his current userbase more than any kind of long term caring about the size of it. Wouldn’t be surprised if he plans to quit his job in the next 5 years and collect a fat severance anyway. He’d rather people not leave, but DDoSing a small chunk of people somewhere else doesn’t really help much.

This is a random attack, so ask yourself who benefits? For one thing, it’s fun. It also pisses some people off. It also irritates a fairly politically active population.

Who wants all those things? Trolls, of course. Why are they, specifically, trolling? Varies individual to individual, but mainly it’s about causing pain to others.

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FYI, this is an attempt at humour, clearly “/s” is needed on lemmy as much as it was on reddit 😅

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9 points

Some of the larger subreddits probably have more traffic than all of lemmy. I don’t think he’s spending his time trying to figure out how to sabotage lemmy.

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Well just don’t discount the possibility that somebody is doing it just for the lolz.

When it comes to this sort of thing there doesn’t need to be any rational motivation or intention to sabotage.

@Burns

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What would be the probability of u/spez being behind this attack, in an attempt to sabotage lemmy?

Lets be honest… he is too busy single-handedly destroy reddit to worry about messing with Lemmy. I think lemmy is the least of his issues right now.

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4 points

IRC has had a history of people trying to take down servers from time to time.

I’d guess a random person who got banned from a lemmy.world community or the like.

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15 points

Absolutely zero.

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8 points

From the man himself lmao

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With all the problems lemmy.world has been having, I’ve been using the opportunity to test out kbin as well.

Hopefully the Lemmy devs will be able to sort out all the problems.

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Easy target since it’s so big. I still think it’s madness to have so many users on one instance. But I guess people need to learn…

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I hate assholes that do this. Why? I mean really why?

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14 points

Some men just want to watch the world burn. Namely assholes.

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The only DDoS that I can half-way tolerate is ones that go against corporations/governments that do evil shit. And even then, those attacks had better not effect people’s health and welfare needs. Yes, assholes abound.

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7 points

Children. They’re children. Let’s not call these childish little bastards “men”!

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Apologies, it can also be women. I’m just constrained by the quote.

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The Most Pathetic Person

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Was it someone with Turtle something in their handle? I can’t remember his/her whole name but they freaked out a few weeks ago when they got banned on Reddit after being a power mod that enjoyed being a jerk and they showed up here in Lemmy for a day or two.

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Awkward the turtle? I didn’t realised they’d actually joined lemmy. They can fuck right off.

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Awkwardtheturtle

I remember seeing the screenshots of their tantrum. That person severely needs to touch grass.

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Least terminally online and very sane person

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lemmy.ml has been unreachable or “Error” page with lemmy-ui off an on for past 90 minutes.

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46 points

Lemmy.world can’t catch a break.

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They are the biggest, so the target is larger or at least more well known.

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