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Lemmy.world is down because of a DDOS attack
(lemmy-world.statuspage.io)
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this post was submitted on 15 Jul 2023
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We're having fun and trying to build a positive space. And we have real potential to succeed in growing large. Can you think of a single faster way to attract trolling on the internet?
It's a lot more likely than someone like spez taking a break from plundering his company to piss off a modest number of internet randos in some internet corner somewhere, which would barely be a drop in the bucket of his problem anyway.
The overall effect of this is so small, it almost has to be someone(s) with too much time on their hands. If they had any kind of real power, they wouldn't be wasting their time on these chump change attacks.
Maybe it was their refusal to take a stance on Meta and Threads? The admins of .ml said it took them 2 minutes to decide to preemptively defederate. .World on the other hand came to an anti-corporate platform and publicly took a position that they would wait and see about federation with Meta.
It's like saying "power to the people and viva revolution but we are also remaining open to licking boot depending on the circumstances."
I do not believe that the Fediverse is an exclusively anti-corporate platform. It's nature is open to all, even corporations, at a technical level.
Granted, many anti-corporate people came here, but that doesn't make this a fundamently anti-corporate place. Just their specific communities.
I also doubt many serious Fediverse types are that petty and childish. That's generally a trait of more short-sighted people. Not a lot of native trolls here, we came here in many cases to escape that behavior.
Is it so strange to think some assholes might just chase us down and bring it to us? What would you do if you were a hate-fueled asshole that wanted to watch the world burn? I'd find nice things and fuck them up, personally. That would be both fun and potentially effective.