this post was submitted on 28 Oct 2025
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Man this sucks. What kind of dickweed DDoSs a lemmy instance? Hope this isnβt causing too much trouble for you.
Its alright but I also dont know what the point is. Its not like the hundreds of lemmy instances is going anywhere. We are all here to stay around and offer an alternative to big tech platforms. They can ddos a few of us but not all.
What annoys me most is that they use their malicious energy to attack small innocent websites instead of going after the big evil ones.
Script kiddies gotta hone their skills somewhere safe before going after the big game
Could be random user just doesn't like some other random user with this as their home instance. They don't know the user's IP address, but do know the home instance's and so decided that a way to attack them would be to DDoS the home instance.
IRC had people DoSing other users (and even servers) as part of people getting in fights there.
Thanks for looking into it, @mrmanager@lemmy.today.
This makes a lot of sense! I personally have had my own little stalkers (there was a guy who created an entire bot army to go against me, got called out on it, then disappeared lol) on here because people just can't go outside and touch grass sometimes. So your scenario wouldn't surprise me at all. lol