I know it's easy to blame the alt right for everything, but the hexbear community was a communist community.

IIRC these rolling DOS attacks started before the most recent defed, though. They've been happening for a while.

there was a defed with a bunch of tankies, and they were openly discussing on their instance doing and having done ddos attacks

The Rammy thing? Many of the objectionable posts there were by the exact same person from exploding heads.

Right wingers aren’t smart enough to coordinate something like that.

Try to find an instance that's local to your country or region.

Agreed.

Startrek.website and sh.itjust.works are the other two legs of my Lemmy Tripod.

I know nothing of Star Trek but after watching the newer Kahn movie I was inspired to watch starting from the modernized episode 1.

What I'm saying is--yes.

I think that the dev and some volunteers at kbin.social has done a lot of work on scaling up that instance, but even so, kbin.social will probably hit hard-to-fix scaling issues at some point. It's also a big instance, like lemmy.world.

I'd been looking at another (presently small) US-based one-person kbin instance, was planning to hop over if it stayed up to help spread load, but it looks like it went down.

I suppose that once a number of instances have a track record of staying up for N months and with their uptime records established, it'll be easier to figure out what instances are good alternatives, are likely around for the long haul, and which ones will vanish in the wind.