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As part of the devs farewell message on their site, they have included malicious code to make each visitor sends 2,000 requests to the dbzer0 servers in an attempt to DDOS and take the instance offline.
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this post was submitted on 27 Jul 2026
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Can I get a tldr of the drama? Never heard of tessaract before, was it a web front end or app?
Guy made an alternative front-end some instances used. It secretly retrieved a non-text-readable shadowban list including dozens of instances, about a thousand users, and any post including bottom face/hands, the word "perchance", and a bunch of other stuff. It was discovered when one of the instances using it updated and found the entire instance was throwing a generic technical error.
I usually don't like to play the "English as second language" card, as I take great pride learning it, but I need to for this one lol. what does this mean?
๐ฅบ and ๐๐ were in the list.
It was an alternate web frontend