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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[–] impairedimperator@lemmy.zip 24 points 9 hours ago

Some guy made a UI for Lemmy, called tesseract. Then he hid secret blacklists within that UI which automatically blocked a bunch of leftist and trans content, as well as some generic spam stuff. Someone noticed that a trans community was blocked when accessed through tesseract, and so they did some digging and published the blocklists.

Guy that made tesseract calmly and reasonably wrote a rambling "farewell" letter where he basically said we're all insane and he's done trying to make Lemmy a "better" place, and included ddos code within the farewell letter targeting the instance that first identified the blacklists.

Now they've spent the last 2-3 days arguing how great the tesseract blacklist was under various alt accounts.