When you notice Lemmy is quieter than usual, then have a look at the Lemmy.world status - Lemmy
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Seems like they are under attack again, will those people never stop? I feel sorry for the admin team.

We’re getting scapegoated for the DDOS attack that affected us too yesterday, all because @Tankiedesantski@hexbear.net made one (admittedly kinda funny) joke here.

Normally I wouldn’t post petty internet bullshit like this but I thought our admins should know.

Edit: Entire thread is a gold mine for dunk tank material tho

Edit2: Now the Spook of @Alaskaball@hexbear.net is getting namedropped

Edit3: So after some digging (read: 5 mins browsing lemmy instances) another user made this post saying the attacker was someone with a personal beef with .world completely unrelated to us? Documented methodology of attack is different but similar to the spam bot we got hit with too, but idk I’m just amateur hour here not an OpSec pro.

Edit4: I was trying to click on the links provided in that post to double check but lemmy.world went down data-laughing

Edit5: Official Statement

So who is attacking us? One thing that is clear is that those responsible of these attacks know the ins and outs of Lemmy. They know which database requests are the most taxing and they are always quick to find another as soon as we close one off. That’s one of the only things we know for sure about our attackers. Being the biggest instance and having defederated with a couple of instances has made us a target.

Damn, I never knew what it was like to live somewhere rent-free until now

  • Freeanotherday [he/him, they/them]English
    27•1 year ago

    A “I don’t care, it doesn’t effect me” is clearly supporting the status quo. How is that working out for women in the USA?

    We must be active, vocal, unwavering, and have no bounds in our support towards vulnerable groups. Like our women and trans comrades.

    Anything else is reactionary.

    • a_blanqui_slate [none/use name, any]English
      11•1 year ago

      We must be active, vocal, unwavering, and have no bounds in our support towards vulnerable groups. Like our women and trans comrades.

      Absolutely in terms of supports of rights for the groups, but we must be fundamentally deflationary about the effects any particular, individual manifestation of those rights has on other people. If an individuals particular exercise of bodily autonomy is taken to have meaningful practical impacts on others, it becomes fair game for moral and political interference, such as the (lack of a) right to curl my finger around the trigger of an SKS and fire it into the air.

      I think there’s something of a conflation going on between supporting the groups right to exercise bodily autonomy, which is a moral obligation as a leftist, and the obligation to be invested in any particular expression of that bodily autonomy. If we hold to the latter we’re implicitly giving other people a veto over other people’s expression of gender identity, which is bad.

      To wit, I can defend the right to abortion, but I am in no position to tell any woman they should or should not get an abortion. I can help them understand their choice and it’s consequences, but I have no right normatively to tell them how they should exercise that choice.