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submitted 7 hours ago by Quokka@quokk.au to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

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.

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[-] flamingos@feddit.uk 15 points 7 hours ago

The best part is that this won't even work, the max page size in Lemmy is 100.

this post was submitted on 27 Jul 2026
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