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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[–] HonoraryMancunian@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

So a client like Sync et al? Or something slightly different?

[–] jaygray91@piefed.zip 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

It kind of is, considering it's still an app of sorts, but using the web browser. I just keep using "front end" because that's what others call it. I see it like an app. but yeah, it's to change the UI if you don't like the default lemmy UI.

[–] HonoraryMancunian@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Ah like an extension?

[–] jaygray91@piefed.zip 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Don't have to install anything. Some instance make it the default though, but I think most front end like Voyager or Alexandrite (or tesseract since we are discussing it) you can visit their web page and point your home instance to use their UI.

Edit; I'm copying a comment someone else made here https://piefed.zip/comment/6322459 since it's pretty consise than what I explained 😅

It's a frontend. So literally a skin to make a website look prettier and more organized.

Imagine a waiter starts telling customers what foods they are allowed to eat. He wasn't the chef, the manager, the owner, anybody.

That's how stupid it was.