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It's a great question. What's the motivation? Who loses if Lemmy succeeds?
Rivals such as Reddit, the groups who benefit from the ease at which they can manipulate what people see on Reddit to further their agendas (companies, governments, groups).
And fascists in general, who hate open global community platforms that are hard to control, and hate things that bring people together, things that give people strength to fight together against things bigger than them.
All it takes is one of those interested parties to fund a couple of low rent hackers to poke at Lemmy until it's so unstable and untrustworthy that people stop using it.
Cheap and effective if done right, a good investment in the long run for any discerning fascist.
I doubt it would be company rivals for the time being. Lemmy is nowhere big enough, and even the largest instances are dwarfed by either other social networks, or other projects like Mastodon.
Reddit has much more of a concern for Facebook or Twitter trying to co-opt their model, than some small open source project, like how Meta released Threads during the recent Twitter controversy.
Spez loses. Maybe he's the one behind it cause he's salty that people called him out for being a pedophile.
Yeah it's definitely a targeted campaign of sabotage. I'm glad people have found a way to stem the flow, but we'll need a better solution long term.
It wouldn't surprise me if an associate of reddit (or someone they hired at arms length) was responsible for the DDOS attacks, but I highly doubt reddit as a company is hiring anyone to spam CSAM.
Think about what sort of motivations and personality someone would have to do it. IMO it's the guy who got butthurt over not being able to spam and threatened that he would wreck the site.
It's highly unlikely. There are better, less CSAM ways for a company to make lemmy instances unstable. This is clearly for shock and troll value.
I know; I'm just being sarcastic. I didn't think I had to pull out the /s here on Lemmy, cause everyone here seems more intelligent (for the most part).
I'm going to assume you meant that you didn't expect others to post the same sentiment alongside you unironically and not that anyone who replied to you seriously should have known better for literally no reason.
The motivation could also be just trying to get the instance shut down, or otherwise break it, like the user that was spamming communities not that long ago.
Nothing too conspiratorial.
I don't think either a corporate entity or another instance/software type is behind this. The motivation for these people is the same as those who used to post a certain image with the word 'goat' as part of the title all over usenet binary groups and web forums. They simply find it funny that so many people are appalled and they feel a sense of power that they've affected so large a community. There's nothing more complicated than that to it.
Exactly.