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submitted 22 hours ago by Quokka@quokk.au to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

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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[-] Dojan@pawb.social 46 points 17 hours ago

I have received a constant stream of harassing messages, death threats, and threats of doxxing over DM, Matrix, Github, and Codeberg. All of it instigated and eggged on by another instance's top admin.

I'm getting pretty sick of this kind of claim. Like, do I believe he's been harassed? Yeah, that seems likely. Death threats? That's definitely possible. What I take issue with is the way it's brought up.

He frames that it's a campaign run by a particular individual targeting him, but there are no receipts. He's using it as a shield against critique, shutting down any discussion around this by pointing at something and screaming about how he's a big victim here.

[-] curbstickle@anarchist.nexus 23 points 16 hours ago

Same thing the last time, a claim of coordinated attacks (of which there were none), and anyone who dared say "well thats not cool" were targeted, myself included.

Though I surprisingly didn't make it into this list, but considering my commenting on it since, I'd probably make it into their next one.

These claims seem like a go-to for anyone caught doing something they know they shouldn't have in a way they shouldn't have.

this post was submitted on 27 Jul 2026
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