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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[–] 65 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

What an actual manchild

People who are actually done don't write several essays in a week and set up targeted DDoS

Imagine having such an oversized ego to think that your views are the only correct ones, and then that it's your duty to enforce them on others in clandestine ways.

Particularly when those views are ultimately not much more developed than those you'd expect a child to hold

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  • [–] 31 points 21 hours ago (3 children)

    Considering the guy had a list of what looked like 1k+ users being blocked, which honestly confuses me how he managed to get that many users together. I don't even remember most of the users comments after each post, let alone the massive list he had. His ego must be massive to create a curated list like that, which means he took issue with each one of us on that list or built a script that created it based from trigger words from our posts and comments... either way it's not a good look.

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  • [–] 5 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

    It was a very sloppy list. I searched for a few regex terms and there definitely some who only matched two nicks and were way to general for that. For example blocking every nick starting with urheber, which is German and means originator, to just match two accounts who are exactly named like that. It could also be that he put some nicks in the regex just make the block less obvious

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  • [–] 1 point 16 hours ago (1 child)

    Is it like the German way of saying ‘OP’?

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  • [–] 2 points 15 hours ago*

    No, we use it mostly related to authorship. The German version of copyright is basically called originator rights (Urheberrecht) and is designed to protect the rights of the original creator.

    Aside from legal context it is rarely used and rather for somebody who started a riot and such

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  • [–] 6 points 18 hours ago (1 child)

    He probably just used his personal block list as the basis.

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  • [–] 6 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

    Yea but...1k+ users? That's a massive list lol

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  • [–] 3 points 11 hours ago (1 child)

    My instance (diffrint) mirrors bans from blahaj and db0, and there were over 3000 instance bans from blahaj over the last year, so it's easy to get a list over 1k just in transphobes alone

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  • [–] 3 points 7 hours ago (1 child)

    O shit, that's a lot of bans. How many are duplicates? I guess I'm still thinking about how small the fediverse is but that's probably not true anymore.

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  • [–] 3 points 6 hours ago (1 child)

    The 3000+ was from blahaj alone, and I set it up to go from newest to oldest, and skip accounts that had been unbanned, so no duplicates. I ran it through blahaj first, and then dbzer0, and there were only 500 additional unique bans from from dbzer0 over the last year

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  • [–] 9 points 21 hours ago (1 child)

    The way it was written suggests either LLM slop or just being an obsessive dumbfuck with way too much time on his hands.

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  • [–] 9 points 17 hours ago

    think its your duty to enforce them on others...

    Thats the wild part of all this.

    There are ways for users to filter things themselves. Its not hard, and that is the user's choice. I filter out several instances, but its MY CHOICE. And if others want to read those, that is fine, its THEIR CHOICE.

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