As part of the devs farewell message on their site, they have included malicious code to make each visitor sends 2,000 requests to the dbzer0 servers in an attempt to DDOS and take the instance offline.

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[–] Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca 44 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

'I'm not the problem, everyone else is'. 🤦

I tried to carve out a space where those people and other rougher edges were not drowning out niche communities and hobbies and where people who choose to use the platform to harass others were also out of sight, out of mind.

All he had to do was make his own instance, where he can defederate from/block whoever he likes. Let users decide if they want to be a part of it.

Good intentions don't justify bad actions, and abusing the trust instilled in you as a developer of a popular tool is rarely taken lightly.

Imposing your own personal opinionated blacklists on other peoples platforms without their knowledge and consent was never going to go well, no matter what your intentions are. ESPECIALLY in the fediverse; a system built to prevent exactly that behaviour.

The DDOS code however....

Frankly that should be considered criminal. This dev should be facing jail time for that alone.

[–] ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 24 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

He did, his instance was dubvee(.)org. i guess that wasn't good enough 🤷

[–] Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca 19 points 3 days ago

Oh, I misunderstood; I thought this code/sign-off was a commit to tesseract (I've not actually looked at the repo)

What a child. People don't want to play in his sandbox, so he goes and takes a shit in theirs.

Good riddance.

[–] goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 3 days ago

Turned out no one like the instances heavy handed curated experience so they decided it needed to be done to those unknowning