sovietknuckles [they/them, undecided]

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  • […] it sounds like you’re arguing that the downtime is because of massive user registrations and not from an attack like they said themselves […]

    I have no idea where their downtime is from. If it is DOS-related, though, they would protect against it using a DDOS protection service like CloudFlare, which costs $$$

    Lemmy.world hasn’t done anything to suggest they would be a significant privacy and security risk to users, at least not yet

    They have, though. The LemmyWorld admins doxxed a user who they believed (incorrectly) to be Hexbear admin CARCOSA@hexbear.net. Source: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/comment/1754850

    […], pushing ads to federated servers or collecting and selling user data would absolutely change that I guarantee it.

    We’ll see, but the larger they grow, the more permanent they get, and ads only affects that so much.

    I didn’t and won’t go as far to accuse the instance owners themselves of being behind the attack but I won’t say it isn’t a user from Hexbear because nether you or I can prove that it isn’t.

    Hexbear is not more suspect than other instances, and there is no reason to name-drop Hexbear, alone, in particular. If they’re being DOSed, then whoever is responsible is most likely involved in a community that has a culture of DOSing in general, like a Chan, maybe the same one that has actively been responsible for vandalizing Lemmy instances.


  • How do they expect to serve ads to people with that abysmal uptime that they have.

    The probably see it differently, that their uptime is limited by their funding, and additional revenue would help uptime.

    Maybe it will maybe they’ll be financially successful but I bet they’re probably also going to get defederated and therefore not platform successful.

    The current logic I’ve seen about why instances continue to federate with LemmyWorld is that they’re “too big to fail”, the same logic applied to Threads, and I don’t see ads changing that. If Threads uses a more PR-friendly way of running ads when they inevitably do, maybe LemmyWorld will copy whatever ad-serving method that is.

    […] and that’s probably just from one person from hexbear who’s pissed at them, […]

    You probably saw someone else say this, rather than making it up yourself, but Hexbear does not DOS anyone, please don’t repeat misinformation