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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[–] rethnor@lemmy.zip 9 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (2 children)

The author of tesseract hardcoded blacklists that targeted communities, moderator and phrases that were progressive or anti-conservative. These blacklists weren't editable by a user, not publicised, and not documented.

Users then starting posting how it explained why they weren't seeing that content as much. Then some users cried themselves to sleep because they weren't special enough to be in included in the lists. 😭

So they got called out for supporting fascists, took their toys home, and left a boobie trap on their website while crying to sleep at home alone, or maybe on the streets. I don't know or really care where they are crying.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2 points 4 hours ago

its effectively a shadowban.

[–] oceanwaveswoosh@lemmy.world 0 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (3 children)

I see. As someone who has been in said communities, I must ask: were all trans and leftist communities blocked, or were only the niche hang-outs of specific individuals blocked? Because in my experience, trans and leftist spaces are rarely what they are named for, and are instead hangout spaces for specific online cliques. "Trans communities" may ban all trans people except 5 individuals, for example, and still call themselves a "trans" community.

You said that "they" got "called out for supporting fascists"? What fascists did they support? Are you saying that the author of the blacklist is a fascist based on his banning trans and leftist communities, or are you saying that they're Trump supporters or something like that?

I'm afraid this is not enough context, my apologies.

[–] Grainne@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 hour ago

That sounds like complete BS.

[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 5 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

They locked out the entirety of blahaj and db0 and also the phrase "censoring me".

They also had a violent objection to beans

[–] Grainne@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 hour ago

And quokk.au, afaik the only other trans instance alongside Blahaj.

[–] rethnor@lemmy.zip 2 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

No apologies necessary, I know the gist of what's going on but not the details. This looks to be the start of it https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/72685299

I didn't even know what tesseract was last week 😄

[–] oceanwaveswoosh@lemmy.world -2 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/72685299

NoScript blocks this link, so given the very limited context, I think I'll skip this link for now.

[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 1 points 2 hours ago

Noscript does not block this link

[–] rethnor@lemmy.zip 2 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

[–] oceanwaveswoosh@lemmy.world 2 points 4 hours ago

Thank you.