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favrion Aug 9, 2023

The funny thing about these DDos attacks on Lemmy World is that the hackers seem to forget that other instances exist.

The funny thing about these DDos attacks on Lemmy World is that the hackers seem to forget that other instances exist. - Lemmy

If they’re trying to attack all of Lemmy, or the whole Fediverse, they’re doing it wrong. lol It’s like obvious spam emails that put no effort into appearing legitimate. You have the spirit of it, but your heart is in the wrong place.

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gabe [he/him]Aug 9, 2023

I think it might be someone with a grudge…

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Rocketpoweredgorilla Aug 9, 2023

It is, or at least partially... From what I understand a user(Lmao/Angled) was "sub-lemmy camping" (took up thousands of popular sub names and wasn't doing anything with them) so lemmy world defederated from that instance. He had a hissy fit and "vowed revenge" and has been attempting to do as much damage to .world as he/they could since. https://old.lemmy.world/post/1720870

Deleting >4000 junk communities by @LMAO : support

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grte

If this is accurate it’s particularly funny in light of the fact that every instance can have a community of a given name. It’s not taken for every instance once one instance makes a community of a particular name, haha.