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Wouldn't be surprised if Cloudflare itself was hiring out blackhats to DDoS attack certain websites in order to get them into the fold, like racketeering. I mean this is America, I wouldn't put it past any company here, even ones pretending to be "virtuous"
Other companies I'd believe, but Cloudflare has never seemed slimy
Cloudflare houses and has housed many shady and downright awful websites without any problems from their "morality department"
This is like saying Microsoft isn't slimy either because so many people use their product
I wonder now with the semi-adversarial/semi-cooperative nature between lemmy instances, if wer'e not going to see more DDOS and other types of raids happening because a different instance has an ax to grind against yours. Say between you defederated them, or they consider your instance too big etc.
I saw a post "Lemmy seems to have way more leftists than xyz." So I wouldn't be surprised to find it's political nonsense, people attacking a site they see as "the left."
I can see it now, a lemmy cold war of sorts where the "leftists" and "socialists" and "communists" are arguing non-stop over the definition of those terms and who is worst amongst them
Thank you! I will donate tomorrow
Be aware that you use another server so you might consider donating to them instead.
I have an account on yours too, but I might split it between both indeed :)
I'm curious, why bother with multiple accounts? It seems counterintuitive when taking federation into account
Edit: All of these reasons are why I host my own instance
I do it for the following reasons:
- The big main lemmy servers can and do go down regularly. having accounts on other instances still gives me the ability to log in and participate on the communities I care about. I sure do wish the underlying federation logic allowed for associating selected logins on various instances together somehow.
- Testing: often, I will create a post or comment into a community hosted on a different lemmy server and not see it update. When this happens, I'll log in on the other instance to see what that post or comment looks like from there.
- Insurance against defederation: I participated/followed some beehaw.org communities before they defederated, and then I was forced to open an account there to continue participating in those communities.
Whats the motivation to DDOS? How mutch is specific malice to lemmy or lemmy.world itself and how much is genaric.
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