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I was on LW at first but made a switch specifically because the instancencouldn't handle the influx
There was also a user that was booted for sublemmy camping (literally trying to grab thousands of sub names) that was constantly ddosing the site, and doing everything they could to mess things up for others.
Oh wow yeah the "I'm going to destroy your server" guy. I wonder what happened to him.
Probably still around under a different name or over on hexbear with all the other like-minded individuals.
No this had nothing to do with Hexbear
I never said they had anything to do with it, only that may be where he went. (assuming he's not still here.) The crap he was posting was very similar to what they were spamming.
Ok just want to make it clear that we never suspected Hexbear to be involved. This started before we defederated with them.
No problem, maybe I should have been more clear with my comment. I was here when all that crap went down under a different username before I switched to this .ca one as my daily driver.
*allegedly
We are not sure who was behind the ddos. It could have been that guy or it could have been users from exploding-heads.com because we defederated with them.
Or it could just as well have been an admins from another instance that didn't like LW was the biggest instance.
The only thing that was sure was that they knew very well how Lemmy worked and which actions caused the heaviest load on the server.
We couldn't handle the ddos at times, the influx was never the problem. Every time that did become a problem we upgraded the hardware.
Same here, switched cause of the down time mostly