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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[–] ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works 15 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Just before this whole thing, the piefed dev pushed an update that capped how many up/downvotes piefed users can do per day. They set the cap to effectively punish like 3 users who posted all day everyday.

One of those users had a "I will leave unless you reconsider." moment and they didn't give half a shit. And they didn't even make the list. None of their communities did.

So just a couple devs thrashing around causing as much collateral damage as possible.

[–] AzuranAurora@piefed.ca 20 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Also punishes those who vote frequently, as I often do. I thought Voyager was having issues until I read the Piefed changelog. Unless my instance admin removes the limit I'm likely going back to lemmy.ca because I shouldn't have to ration my upvotes. I like being able to boost engagement while also making it easier for me to see which comments I have or haven't read yet.

[–] ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works 16 points 2 days ago

Yeah the whole concept was dogshit from the beginning. It solved no problem except as an exercise of control.

[–] Link@rentadrunk.org 2 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Thank you. I do prefer Piefed but without all the restrictions he is imposing.

Is there perhaps a fork of it without these restrictions?

[–] Kierunkowy74@piefed.zip 4 points 2 days ago (2 children)

PieFed zip has removed at least the vote quota (or rather, they made it irrevelant)

[–] AzuranAurora@piefed.ca 3 points 1 day ago

Hoping piefed.ca does the same.

[–] Link@rentadrunk.org 1 points 1 day ago

Right but there are other restrictions too such as hiding posts from certain websites I believe.

[–] ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 days ago

I cannot attest to any of it other than it exists:

https://codeberg.org/quokkau/PyLova

Forked during this or the last dramatic debacle with the dev.