2y ago

A Spectre haunts Lemmy.world, the Spectre of Hexbear

When you notice Lemmy is quieter than usual, then have a look at the Lemmy.world status - Lemmy

We're getting scapegoated for the DDOS attack that affected us too yesterday, all because @Tankiedesantski@hexbear.net made one (admittedly kinda funny) joke here.

Normally I wouldn't post petty internet bullshit like this but I thought our admins should know.

Edit: Entire thread is a gold mine for dunk tank material tho

Edit2: Now the Spook of @Alaskaball@hexbear.net is getting namedropped

Edit3: So after some digging (read: 5 mins browsing lemmy instances) another user made this post saying the attacker was someone with a personal beef with .world completely unrelated to us? Documented methodology of attack is different but similar to the spam bot we got hit with too, but idk I'm just amateur hour here not an OpSec pro.

Edit4: I was trying to click on the links provided in that post to check but lemmy.world is down

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Would I be wrong to say this is straight up McCarthyism? This is clearly a witch-hunt against left communities for being left and no other reason. I still have not seen any evidence to justify the kind of negative treatment this community has received from some of the other lemmy instances.
- During the lifetime of great revolutionaries, the oppressing classes constantly hounded them, received their theories with the most savage malice, the most furious hatred and the most unscrupulous campaigns of lies and slander. After their death, attempts are made to convert them into harmless icons, to canonize them, so to say, and to hallow their names to a certain extent for the “consolation” of the oppressed classes and with the object of duping the latter, while at the same time robbing the revolutionary theory of its substance, blunting its revolutionary edge and vulgarizing it.
  this but they're mad about posting online
lol at whoever that Fawxhox dipshit is whining about being banned for a week for being dumb about trans people, good riddance
- First, they came for the transphobes...
  And then I said good, get fucked lmao
I tried lemm.ee and it’s cool but I see so many hexbear posts on the All tab from like any of their communities spewing hate and it’s frustrating to scroll past
Lmao must be rough
I’m literally the most left person I personally know by a wide margin, and I got called a reactionary
Like it literally said “trans people should be able to do whatever the fuck they want with their body, I don’t care, it doesn’t effect me”
I don’t care, it doesn’t effect me”
I’m literally the most left person
I don’t care, it doesn’t effect me”
I’m literally the most left person
I don’t care, it doesn’t effect me”
https://lemmy.ml/comment/2430666
- What a lying piece of shit he is. He didn't make a post supportive of trans people, he literally barged in here and told us we should talk less about trans issues. He had the fucking audacity to walk into a queer space and tell trans people to shut up about our lifes in our safe space, and now he still cries big baby tears about being banned for that months later.
  
  Oh of course we could talk less about trans issues, just face the wall for a second really quick.

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