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.

  • oceanwaveswoosh@lemmy.worldEnglish
    72·
    2 days ago

    This rant tells me absolutely nothing about what happened except that this man is angry about something. Since you’re calling him a fascist, you seem to know what is going on, or have some type of context. What happened?

    • Taleya@aussie.zoneEnglish
      18·
      2 days ago

      Dude created a lemmy front end and made it free for public use.

      What he didn’t tell anyone was he had a secret blocklist written into it that meant he effectively controlled who and what anyone who used it saw across the entire fediverse. Basically tried to make themselves modking.

      When this was discovered, they had a meltdown, then another one, then another fifteen screaming that everyone was just a bunch of toxic violent cunts who didnt understand their vision. The post addressed here was about count five. They’re still here.

    • rethnor@lemmy.zipEnglish
      171·
      2 days ago

      The author of tesseract hardcoded blacklists that targeted communities, moderator and phrases that were progressive or anti-conservative. These blacklists weren’t editable by a user, not publicised, and not documented.

      Users then starting posting how it explained why they weren’t seeing that content as much. Then some users cried themselves to sleep because they weren’t special enough to be in included in the lists. 😭

      So they got called out for supporting fascists, took their toys home, and left a boobie trap on their website while crying to sleep at home alone, or maybe on the streets. I don’t know or really care where they are crying.

      • oceanwaveswoosh@lemmy.worldEnglish
        511·
        2 days ago

        I see. As someone who has been in said communities, I must ask: were all trans and leftist communities blocked, or were only the niche hang-outs of specific individuals blocked? Because in my experience, trans and leftist spaces are rarely what they are named for, and are instead hangout spaces for specific online cliques. “Trans communities” may ban all trans people except 5 individuals, for example, and still call themselves a “trans” community.

        You said that “they” got “called out for supporting fascists”? What fascists did they support? Are you saying that the author of the blacklist is a fascist based on his banning trans and leftist communities, or are you saying that they’re Trump supporters or something like that?

        I’m afraid this is not enough context, my apologies.

        • Taleya@aussie.zoneEnglish
          12·
          2 days ago

          They locked out the entirety of blahaj and db0 and also the phrase “censoring me”.

          They also had a violent objection to beans

            • oceanwaveswoosh@lemmy.worldEnglish
              16·
              2 days ago

              So… not trying to be rude, but is this a trans instance, or is this for same-age white lesbian trans fems to hook up with or flirt with one another and post porn because they don’t have their own bars in real life? Edit: And if it is, do they allow all white trans fems to post there, or only the transfems they’ve personally hooked up with or want to?

              Sometimes trans spaces are not trans spaces but are actually just for one singular specific group of people and don’t actually represent “the community,” and thus beef with this one particular very specific group of individual people does not always represent beef with the community as a whole.

              Edit again: No “allies” please. Only reply if you’re trans.

              Edit again again: It looks like this is an instance for caterpillars and eggs, rather than a hookup space. I was right about it being overwhelmingly white though, not necessarily bad and could be accidental, but white caterpillars are do not represent the majority of the community as a whole.

        • Sat@lemmy.worldEnglish
          5·
          2 days ago

          I have never seen anything but very left leaning communities on Lemmy. What is this about?

          • phx@lemmy.worldEnglish
            3·
            2 days ago

            Most like the first of many attacks by right-wing nutjobs that resent any platform still exists that isn’t pumping their own agenda full throttle…

    • BehindTheBarrier@programming.devEnglish
      5·
      2 days ago

      I don’t have a link or full context, but it turned out that the dev of tessaract (open source program for fediverse sites, involving at least spam and blocking tools) had a functionality in the program that fetched their own block list from their site. But this blocksite was blocking a huge amount of users, fediverse domains, and anything with any keywords which would be anything political, some porn/sexual terms like Yuri, and lots more. This block was completely invisible the ones running the program and would also give fediverse instances that were blocked a generic failed to connect error instead of saying blocked, preventing the fediverse instances from talking.

      Seeing the above, it seems like the dev didn’t handle this discovery in any good way either and retaliated but doing this ddos thing.