Nope, but it will stop the less determined ones.

With no email verification, you can pretty much create dozens of fake accounts per second - as fast as the API can handle.

I’m not defending anyone.

I didn’t expect I had to spell it out for you, but here’s what I’m saying: Until some kind of international investigation force comes out with clear evidence, anyone who tells you “who did it”, is just projecting who they want to be the perpetrator.

The problem with asking “who’s behind this untraceable* attack?” is that you either truthful but useless answers (we don’t know), or just someone speculating that their “enemy” is responsible. I wouldn’t use the word projection so easily in this context, if I were you.

(* unless you consider interpol and the likes)

You don’t become a developer by wishing. Here’s a tutorial if you want to learn

(edit: Rust, not Go)

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Yikes. Bit trigger happy with the ban hammer there. It’s at -40, isn’t that filtering enough?

Edit: it was an instance ban initially, this is more reasonable.

With a ddos, there’s no way of knowing. But given that the attacks are this mild, probably not someone we’ve heard of.

Would have been nice if they had addressed this circlejerk tinfoil hat theory as well.

If that were the case, I think he would have paid a bit more and make sure it would have stayed down. No competition was destroyed here.

I think it’s Far more likely that it’s just a bunch of scriptkiddies saying “when I press button, error page goes brrrrrrr”.

Groups paid by Steve Huffman

Any basis for this conspiracy theory?

Very nuanced take, I like it.

Dick the birthday boy? What are you doing here?

Mister Plinkett? What are you doing here?

No argument there. But given that they mostly popup in the context of “I think all nazis…”-circlejerks, that’s kinda to be expected.

countries that have better voting systems that allow for more than two parties are the exception, not the norm.

Are you sure about that? I have no numbers to back it up, but at least here in Europe many countries have more than two parties to choose from, and the winning parties form a governing coalition (alliance).

Unless by beter voting system you mean something like Ranked voting etc, in which case I agree, that is unfortunately very rare.

Haven’t come across that yet myself, but I did see lots of mentions of “nazis” to describe anything that’s not left-wing.

Which site has the least strawmen?

I know I shouldn’t go into comment sections of these kind of posts, but man is this depressing.

Not my opinion, but from what I’m seeing it seems more like in this thread: Left = Good, Right = Nazis

Wait, is “advocating death for” the evolution of “right to exist”? That sure escalated quickly.

I think that’s what they’re saying: in most of the world it’s used as a gradient/spectrum, just a few countries consider it absolutes (you’re either left or right).