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As I pointed out in the thread it was probably a few Lemmy users themselves that did it.
And some people do it for teh lulz.
Not everything has to be some conspiracy theory.
Yeah it seems like the attack wasn't "malicious" per se in that the attacker didn't seem to want to completely take down the site. They just seemed to want to mess with everyone by redirecting to lemon party and other mildly shocking things like racist remarks. Reads more like a bored person to me than anything.
2008 4chan humour
Gotta bring back the classics
Pool's closed, sorry!
it doesn't matter who, it's the "why". They get nothing from this, the only one who benefits from Lemmy going down is spez
I've sat at keyboards beside people studiously working their own. My presumption was that we were working on the same project. Then they have their AHA moment, and show me how they've hacked into our host machine.
They didn't do it for money or to cause disruption. They did it to see if they could, and succeeding was reward enough. Then, happy as could be, they set off in pursuit of their next accomplishment.
Ya never know what's going through others' minds or what motivates them.
If anything an annoyed Reddit βhackerβ doing it to see if they could and for the lulz