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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[–] Vespair@lemmy.zip 2 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Azzu@leminal.space 0 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

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 :)