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.

      • Taleya@aussie.zoneEnglish
        20·
        6 days ago

        Dude created a lemmy front end and made it free for public use.

        What he didn’t tell anyone was he had a secret blocklist written into it that meant he effectively controlled who and what anyone who used it saw across the entire fediverse. Basically tried to make themselves modking.

        When this was discovered, they had a meltdown, then another one, then another fifteen screaming that everyone was just a bunch of toxic violent cunts who didnt understand their vision. The post addressed here was about count five. They’re still here.

      • rethnor@lemmy.zipEnglish
        191·
        6 days ago

        The author of tesseract hardcoded blacklists that targeted communities, moderator and phrases that were progressive or anti-conservative. These blacklists weren’t editable by a user, not publicised, and not documented.

        Users then starting posting how it explained why they weren’t seeing that content as much. Then some users cried themselves to sleep because they weren’t special enough to be in included in the lists. 😭

        So they got called out for supporting fascists, took their toys home, and left a boobie trap on their website while crying to sleep at home alone, or maybe on the streets. I don’t know or really care where they are crying.

      • BehindTheBarrier@programming.devEnglish
        6·
        6 days ago

        I don’t have a link or full context, but it turned out that the dev of tessaract (open source program for fediverse sites, involving at least spam and blocking tools) had a functionality in the program that fetched their own block list from their site. But this blocksite was blocking a huge amount of users, fediverse domains, and anything with any keywords which would be anything political, some porn/sexual terms like Yuri, and lots more. This block was completely invisible the ones running the program and would also give fediverse instances that were blocked a generic failed to connect error instead of saying blocked, preventing the fediverse instances from talking.

        Seeing the above, it seems like the dev didn’t handle this discovery in any good way either and retaliated but doing this ddos thing.