this post was submitted on 15 Jul 2023
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What would be the probability of u/spez being behind this attack, in an attempt to sabotage lemmy?
Minimal. It frankly just doesn't actually advance his goals very significantly. Nor is he a particularly clever man that thinks of unusual strategies.
I think his focus is on squeezing his current userbase more than any kind of long term caring about the size of it. Wouldn't be surprised if he plans to quit his job in the next 5 years and collect a fat severance anyway. He'd rather people not leave, but DDoSing a small chunk of people somewhere else doesn't really help much.
This is a random attack, so ask yourself who benefits? For one thing, it's fun. It also pisses some people off. It also irritates a fairly politically active population.
Who wants all those things? Trolls, of course. Why are they, specifically, trolling? Varies individual to individual, but mainly it's about causing pain to others.
Probably some bored kids.
We don't know that for sure: It could be bored adults who never grew up.
How do you call an adult who never grew up if not a kid?
Hopefully not at all! ^Heyoooo!^
Absolutely zero.
From the man himself lmao
Some of the larger subreddits probably have more traffic than all of lemmy. I don't think he's spending his time trying to figure out how to sabotage lemmy.
Lets be honest... he is too busy single-handedly destroy reddit to worry about messing with Lemmy. I think lemmy is the least of his issues right now.
The Walgreens drugstore got robbed. Was their competitor, CVS, behind it?
Probably, I don't trust those bastards.
IRC has had a history of people trying to take down servers from time to time.
I'd guess a random person who got banned from a lemmy.world community or the like.
Well I’m blaming him regardless of his involvement
This, to me, seems the healthiest approach.
Indeed, never let "facts" or indeed anything like that get in the way of your opinion and the things you say!
Facts schmacts, as my pappy used to say.
FYI, this is an attempt at humour, clearly "/s" is needed on lemmy as much as it was on reddit 😅
@yggdar
Well just don’t discount the possibility that somebody is doing it just for the lolz.
When it comes to this sort of thing there doesn’t need to be any rational motivation or intention to sabotage.
@Burns