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.

    • Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz
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      20 days ago

      Guy made an alternative front-end some instances used. It secretly retrieved a non-text-readable shadowban list including dozens of instances, about a thousand users, and any post including bottom face/hands, the word “perchance”, and a bunch of other stuff. It was discovered when one of the instances using it updated and found the entire instance was throwing a generic technical error.

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        20 days ago

        bottom face/hands,

        I usually don’t like to play the “English as second language” card, as I take great pride learning it, but I need to for this one lol. what does this mean?

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            I knew this was one of the things that they had banned. But I don’t actually know what it means. Or why it was something someone would ban.

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                20 days ago

                Do gay people seriously still use this kind of derogatory language in referring to their partners?

                Or has this been appropriated by incels to make themselves feel superior?

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                  Do gay people seriously still use this kind of derogatory language in referring to their partners?

                  ??? Its only derogatory if you think bottoming is degrading (which I mean it can be, but context is important).

                  I am unaware of alternative language, though in a lot of contexts its used to refer to the passive role even though most people understand it’s unrelated.