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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.
this post was submitted on 27 Jul 2026
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FYI, next version of PieFed has an "Unban All" button for clearing all domain bans to try to make this easier.
Screenshot from my instance:
Oh that's good to hear. It sucks that people have to constantly fight the dev to keep his opinions out of the code though, must be tiring for all involved surely...