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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[–] ILikeTraaaains@lemmy.world 20 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

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?

[–] grue@lemmy.world 12 points 8 hours ago

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.)