#ao3 apparently is under a #DDoS attack, that's causing the downtime. I wonder why anyone would attack ao3, but then I have a feeling that ao3 specifically is under attack recently. AI scrapping ao3 for data to train, several waves of comment spam bots and now this. It's frustrating. Writers are generally treated poorer in fandom spaces anyway, we can't make money, we get fewer interactions, people steal our works to throw it into chatGBT. And on top our main platform regularly gets attacked from all sides, claims like it supports child porn and so on are thrown at it and other bullshit.
Can y'all just leave us fanfic writers alone pls?
#fandom #fanfiction @ao3

https://twitter.com/AO3_Status/status/1678458717879017492?t=9xxge0Ih1Dy3Di3J7mbFNg&s=19

If you know the name of the fucking idiots who are running a #ddos attack against #ao3, do NOT name them.

They are after attention and other things and the best thing you can do to support our favorite site is not to speak their names.

#otw volunteers will get this under control. There are mitigation techniques. #ao3down

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