Very much "fuck you in particular"
this post was submitted on 27 Jul 2026
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You don't know the half of it. When he "quit" the fediverse last year anyone that downvotes his post was banned from dubvee on his way out with this as the ban message
Very much a manchild having another temper tantrum.
Oh wait is this the dubvee guy? I was less active before on lemmy but anything that had a dubvee handle was the was just pure liquefied brainworm
How does dbzer0 end up in every controversy on lemmy ever?
Half the time they arent even the controversial ones in the situation
Because they host ye power tripping bastards, which lists mod abuse
Most arent even related to that community
They are, tangentially.
There's a lot of purity politicking and porridge-only level censorship on lemmy. Db0 tends to allow adults and hyperbole. So you have this combination of wildly overstepping mods / upper tier users used to throwing their weight around "ummmaaa you said a naughty word!!" coming face to face with an entire instance of people they can't control and who don't really care either, with a comm that documents mod abuse and said mods lose their everloving shit at the loss of control.
Because most of the time the controversy is there precisely to make db0 look bad.
Do we have fediverse historians writing this stuff down? I feel like we need a knowyourmeme for fediverse drama.
It's funny that he didn't DDoS the Nazi instances he sprinkled in his blocklist.
Always the critics of fascism that get the short end of dark triads. ╮(︶▽︶)╭
That's why all this noise about being illegal is noise. Unless he's done something to upset their faction, the only ones getting prosecuted are the ones who retaliated. Maybe he would get prosecuted, off chance. It's wild to me how they think dissenters wouldn't also be prosecuted.
Considering many nations are unmasking their fascist tendencies, he’s got plenty of boots he can kiss for a good dismissal.
As anarchists, we are well aware how laws oppress the have-nots. So he absolutely knew DDoSing db0 was the least possible retaliatory target.
I think he might be focused on dbzer0 in particular because they're the ones who first exposed his secret censorship.
Probably not a political choice, but a personal grudge. If a nazi instance had been the first one to expose him, he probably would have targeted them.
It's totally revenge. Db0 is the one who exposed him and from his perspective, ruined his reputation.
It's all his fault of course but he's not going to take responsibility for his own actions. We wouldn't be here in this thread now if he was.
Way to prove you were an asshole literally the entire time.
At first the douchebag tried to play it off like they were doing a good thing by trying to make the fediverse easier to navigate for newcomers.
…by DDOSing an instance? Sure, Jan. What a little coward.
It blocked the entirety of Blahaj. That should have immediately informed everyone exactly what it was for
In response to this startrek.website defederated from dbo. Also weird how the framing of the defedederation lines up so well to what ap and Kirk would say.
https://startrek.website/post/42709922
If you’re not familiar with how Lemmy/the Fediverse works, basically everything you read at StarTrek.website is hosted by us, even if the content originated elsewhere. That means we are responsible for everything here and we have to decide if we are comfortable boosting content from other instances.
If you’re curious, the final straw here was learning that db0 explicitly allows hosting discussions about hurting people, which needless to say goes against our instance values and we simply don’t have the manpower to moderate that volume of content incoming from their server to a degree that we feel meets our quality standards, which left defederating as the only viable option.
In keeping in line with past trends we’re announcing this because is is a larger instance and don’t want to leave any of the crew confused as to why something may be missing.
Yeah this is complete bullshit, we french have defederated from debvee.org which is where the bad guy actually was
Dubvee.Org was taken down anyway
You folks are the best!
Surely that is actually illegal in some places.
If he’s US based it’s very illegal. DDOSing can carry a prison sentence of up to 10 years. His hosting provider already took it down, and I’m pretty sure they’re obligated to report criminal activity on their networks, so this guy is probably fucked.
unless you live on the moon, which legally cannot be "owned" by any country and therefore isn't under the jurisdiction of any country, then this is, in fact, illegal in every place.
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I am OOTL. Can someone give me a quick version of what's going on here? I saw that tesseract on db0 no longer worked and figured it was because they stopped developing it.
But it sounds like they continued and is now attacking db0?
My explanation from days ago: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/comment/27246701
Yup, now it's entering new phase.
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Remember kids,
When everyone else is the asshole, it might be time to consider the common denominator
When everywhere you go it smells like shit, check your shoes.
I'll take that one for later use lol
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