What happened to Anonymous? Why at this time they are not doxxing websites, leaking stuff, or shutting down porn websites?

https://lemmy.world/post/19889308

What happened to Anonymous? Why at this time they are not doxxing websites, leaking stuff, or shutting down porn websites? - Lemmy.World

A lot of the actual, serious ones that knew what they were doing got caught. Some went to lulsec to be jerks with no agenda and were caught by the Feds. All that was left were script kiddies that downloaded the Low Orbit Ion Cannon and used scripts they find online. Then they left or were overtaken by alt right idiots.

The original Anonymous are in their 30s and 40s by now. Everyone ages out.

Oh man I forgot about LOIC haha. Did that actually do anything?
IIRC it spammed websites with traffic, didn’t conceal your IP at all, and some people got arrested for using it
Yep, that’s exactly what it did. Maybe there was a way to do it, say if you had a VPN, but people picked up pretty quick to ban a single IP.
lol your VPN company is going to kick you the instant you turn on LOIC through them
Ah, I always assumed it didn’t actually do anything. That would be a very 4chan thing to say; “download this widget to totally pwn the man” and it doesn’t even do anything haha.
It pioneered DDoS attacks so, uh, yeah