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 double check but lemmy.world went down 
Edit5: Official Statement
So who is attacking us? One thing that is clear is that those responsible of these attacks know the ins and outs of Lemmy. They know which database requests are the most taxing and they are always quick to find another as soon as we close one off. That’s one of the only things we know for sure about our attackers. Being the biggest instance and having defederated with a couple of instances has made us a target.
Damn, I never knew what it was like to live somewhere rent-free until now
I don’t understand how to read that other than as a defense of bodily autonomy. In the same way that I’m not invested in any specific individuals decision to get an abortion or not, while still defending and supporting the right to an abortion.
Well it’s coming from a person who literally got banned for making a thread on here were he demanded we should talk less about trans issues. It’s not a defense of bodily autonomy, it’s entirely a defense of his liberal ass against 100% justified accusations of open transphobia and wrecking.
A “I don’t care, it doesn’t effect me” is clearly supporting the status quo. How is that working out for women in the USA?
We must be active, vocal, unwavering, and have no bounds in our support towards vulnerable groups. Like our women and trans comrades.
Anything else is reactionary.
Absolutely in terms of supports of rights for the groups, but we must be fundamentally deflationary about the effects any particular, individual manifestation of those rights has on other people. If an individuals particular exercise of bodily autonomy is taken to have meaningful practical impacts on others, it becomes fair game for moral and political interference, such as the (lack of a) right to curl my finger around the trigger of an SKS and fire it into the air.
I think there’s something of a conflation going on between supporting the groups right to exercise bodily autonomy, which is a moral obligation as a leftist, and the obligation to be invested in any particular expression of that bodily autonomy. If we hold to the latter we’re implicitly giving other people a veto over other people’s expression of gender identity, which is bad.
To wit, I can defend the right to abortion, but I am in no position to tell any woman they should or should not get an abortion. I can help them understand their choice and it’s consequences, but I have no right normatively to tell them how they should exercise that choice.
yea they should care about what people do with their bodies, and think it effects them. that would be much better.
the actual post in question https://hexbear.net/post/272473
Yeah that’s a bad take from a doofus, but the original comment seemed to take issue with the statement in a vacuum.
It’s the same as the difference between “I’m not racist” and being anti-racist.
Most Americans think they are not racist because they aren’t actively and consciously hurting people based on their race. They’re just supporting racist systems and refuse to break those down or challenge their unconscious biases. They don’t care that people are black, they just don’t want to hear about their problems.
I disagree, for the reasons outlined below. You can be actively pro-choice and pro-trans rights without being personally involved with and invested in every particular manifestation of those rights.