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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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I could understand his initial intention of having some kind of nsfw filter for radical opinions, even though the implementation was questionable. And I was honestly sad about the shit storm that hit him. Too many people here pretend to be more respectful and empathetic than average, but will happily dogpile to get a piece of a person given the right momentum.
But this ddos code is hard to defend, it goes against his own initial intention. He should have walked away before reaching this point.
Can we avoid adding new events to this sad chain of events now?
Radical opinions such as supporting trans people or being against genocide.
Centrists ARE usually clueless enough to blend things together as such...
Centrists are almost always right wingers who try and avoid the right wing label.
I'd say half.
The other half is truly so clueless that they think "both sides are the same and we need to find the middle ground". Which in itself is a major bastardisation of the doctrine of compromise (which says that in a sane system, often the best solution is a compromise between differing parties).
However that doctrine cannot apply to debates about human rights, as one cannot compromise on those.
I have never met, seen, or even heard about this mythological centrist that isnt a hard righter in disguise.
and everything you just laid out as examples are heavily used by said hard righters in online discourse (even the ones pretending to be centrists).
That was me when I was, like, 15. I was between the "two sides". The Republicans I was surrounded by were nutzo, but I didn't know anyone more left, other than my parents who "didn't talk politics" (but generally were ok with the queers and not-whites in a nonspecific way). I toyed with the idea of anarchism because I hated being told what to do, settled on the label "fiscally conservative, socially liberal" with the asterisk that social programs tended to be cheaper solutions to issues than Republican. This all would have been around the hanging chad controversy. I think that's when I first noticed national politics.
Then I went off to college and my horizons expanded.
I think he explained the trans related instances were not blocked because trans but because their admins did not moderate the calls for violence he wanted to filter.
Didn’t the call for violence happened to be just a mod from another instance that had “death to zionism” that stepped down after he was called out?
That's roughly what I remember: the threats were against "zionists" or "genociders" or similar, not any particular user by name, but this guy basically told on himself by interpreting it personally anyway.
(It's possible I'm unaware of other, more egregious, behavior as the situation escalated, but I think this was at least the thing that started the pearl-clutching initially.)
Blahaj does remove calls to violence imo. He had additional petty reasons like how blahaj gave A.N. an endorsement saying "well-moderated" after the previous A.N. admin in question was no longer an admin.
The implementation was not questionable. The implementation was blatantly nefarious and he fucking knew it, because why else would he have tried to hide it?
Why would you even want to defend him? Sneaking in a blocklist like that is not the behaviour of a normal person. There is nothing defensible here.
I think the point was that if AP had published their "filter" and made it a separate and visible toggle setting in their code, this would have been fine. They didn't choose that option though and this doubling down on the doubling down is just further proof of their disingenuousness.
Personally, I still find AP's initial attitude churlish and distasteful. The belief that there should be some kind of divider built into the platform in order to "weed out the toxic elements" goes against everything the Fediverse stands for, which is the diversity of opinion without constraint. It is literally the reason why most of the people who left reddit are here in the first place.
It goes against his initial stated intention.
Just because he said something doesn't mean it's the truth. The way he acted about it initially and the way he acts now makes it blatantly obvious that his actual initial intentions were always nefarious, and he simply lied about his intentions to get sympathy like you're giving him.
Literally this.
I will never understand why we keep letting obviously disingenuous right wingers act like wizards casting spells by finding the right magic words. It's this weird debate culture/internet argument behavior pattern thing that has somehow conditioned society to conflate making a defensible argument with being right.
It is possible to be not incorrect while still being entirely wrong, and I swear it feels like society not understanding that distinction is paramount to the strategy and culture of the right.
I think it's just sheltered people that didn't (/weren't forced to) discover all the possible evil in human behavior.
Lots of people grow up in a decent environment, without many major problems. If that is the case, it is very psychologically disadvantageous to become aware of all the evil possible by literally everybody, because this realization is extremely painful.
Ignorance is bliss and so on. Active, willful ignorance works just as well because our mind is so good at compartmentalizing. People like this can actually unconsciously be actively ignorant, because even the action of trying to be ignorant can be ignored successfully, that's how "good" at that the human mind is.
Because of that, in my opinion, your kind of comment is a little unhelpful. You're entirely right of course, but you phrased it relatively aggressive/as if it was completely obvious, as if you think people that don't believe that should feel bad. But I think the correct approach is to point your message out in a neutral/compassionate way, to make it easier for these ignorant people to read and feel less psychological pain, triggering less of the mental defenses. In any case though, I personally appreciate you :)
While a toxicity filter for normies as an onboarding tool is not the worst idea in the world, the implementation was. But even beyond that, the blocklist was so clearly going way above and beyond "sanding off the rough edges" and straight into just "I'm going to block everything I personally dislike". Wholesome Yuri is like, the opposite of toxic but that whole community was blocked. As was using "🥺👉👈".
It's so frustrating that people still want to interpret the censorship as just "going after those calling for violence." There is nothing violent about girls kissing or using submissive emojis; they just didn't like that queer stuff. There is no way to write that off as anything else. This person found queer behavior icky and wanted to hide it from view. Them claiming to care about bigotry was hypocritical virtue signaling.
"People here pretend to be nice, but get angry when I try to secretly push them out of the conversation"
Shut up, idiot.
Radicalism is shadoew banning anti genocide and colononization people, people trying to make a safe space for trans people and shadow banning people using the term epstein class.
Almost like they were full of shit ftom the get go