people are asking if I know what actually happened, what kind of attack it was and such.

I didn’t see a lot of confirmed info about it (and didn’t really look too hard either), but judging by what I’ve read so far, I’m assuming a combination of doxxing, pestering the hosting and threatening legal harassment.

supposedly the person who hosted it took it down themselves to get the heat off of them - and I can’t blame them, that’s reasonable, no one doing this should ever feel expected to stand up to being personally targeted. that’s what we have a community for. they can back off to ensure their own safety, while we deploy a hundred more mirrors.

(posting this as a separate reply in case edits don’t fully federate.)

/erin

@erin

TERFs are fascist losers

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while we deploy a hundred more mirrors.

Ehehe, these people don't know what the Streisand Effect is.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect

@erin Set up a TOR hidden service. Not necessarily as the primary point of access for most end users, but as a reliable and nearly unterfable point of access to people who would mirror it.

And beware that once the domains are offline, terves will eventually attempt to do "crisis transancy centers" that will mimic good sources but contain lies. So, do what Anna's Archive has been doing, and grab a large number of domains. They don't all have to go live at once; it's good to keep a reserve for the next attack.