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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

  • Cummunism [they/them, he/him]English
    21•1 year ago

    I don’t care, it doesn’t effect me

    yes, when you remove that part of the sentence it does sound bad. otherwise it sounds like they supported trans rights. i’m real confused on how yall are reading that. if “i don’t care” is bad, then they should actually care deeply about what other people do with their body? I’m pretty sure that isn’t it either. maybe it’s word salad and should say “i dont care what people do with their body, it doesn’t effect me.” Which sounds like a good thing to me.

    • Owl [he/him]English
      33•1 year ago

      I think there are situations where that guy’s comment are fine, and situations where it’s not, and their telling of the story most likely hides a shitty reactionary context.

      Like that thing where antifeminists show up in feminist discussions and start talking about male circumcision; it’s a legitimate issue (that feminists care about!) being used to shout over a different one. Or like how “all lives matter” was used to shout down people saying “black lives matter,” even though the statement “all lives matter” would be good in response to anti-homeless rhetoric.

        • AcidSmiley [she/her]English
          27•1 year ago

          Yeah he wasn’t, he actually demanded that leftists should talk less about trans issues. On hexbear. He demanded that trans people shut up in their safe spaces, that turd of a human being. And then he got all defensive and gaslighty and trying to weaponize his identity, all “i was bullied in school for being gay” or “i’m bi myself” and incoherent, contradictory shit like that.

        • ShimmeringKoi [comrade/them]English
          4•1 year ago

          Between this and how they talk about “oh i loved being on the sub but hexbear is just a shitshow” I can probably guess when and from what struggle session they left.

    • Sphere [he/him, they/them]English
      31•1 year ago

      I think we’re used to having good mods whose decisions aren’t worth questioning; this was often not the case on the subreddit, though.

      Never mind, I just re-read their comment–this supposedly happened here on Hexbear. Bullshit, there’s zero chance it happened the way they said.

      Further edit: holy shit he’s talking about this post, just a tiny bit of contextual info left out lmao

    • LaGG_3 [he/him, comrade/them]English
      23•1 year ago

      I feel like the “I don’t care about [issue], it doesn’t affect me” mindset ends up going down the south park libertarian path of “and this is why anyone who cares about this issue either way is bad.”

      I might be wrong, but being on the left should come from a place of empathy and solidarity, not apathy.

    • NoGodsNoMasters [they/them, she/her]English
      19•1 year ago

      The thing is, that’s not what actually happened. They basically made a post where they suggested that we were talking too much about trans stuff and this was somehow contributing to the right’s obsession with trans people