I dunno the dev has made loads of posts in the past year saying they’ll quit lemmy and tesseract only to come back. Clearly they were struggling and finding threadiverse wasnt helping but couldn’t stop coming back…

Feels like crisis/cry for help behaviour to me. Especially since they spent their first couple years on fedi being opinionated but generally polite and contributing compared to… whatever the fuck happened past couple months…

what does dubvee.org have to do w it?

only works for the ones lucky enough to catch it -- a tiny minority is likely considering that piefed was caught doing something similar and it's still on track to be one of the largest instances on the fediverse nonetheless.

the same thing except less well hidden.

That's where the ddos originated

Startrek.website is probably also run by Admiral Patrick, or maybe he's just someone with admin access there. Either way they seem like bad news, that site should definitely be avoided.

I don't think I've heard anything positive about the instance so completely unsurprised by what they did AND how they were happy to blame db0 for everything while continuing darvo.

Only sad this comment didn't federate before the post was locked

So this user of yours will also be banned for not following the instance values?

https://startrek.website/u/kirk

Specifically not following authenticity, ie saying they're a different user but could be trying to increase the moderation you may need to do, and extremely disrespectful, unless that value only counts towards members of this instance.

This is being brought up specifically as while yes you are a small instance non of this apart from that user would bring traffic here you would need to moderate so it seems as if you are just doing this to cut off a large portion of the fediverse explicitly against principles those in star trek would be for.

Isn't that like seriously criminal in the usa lol?

I am not sure what the other preventative actions have been taken. Is it feasible to defederate from this and any other instance that is administered from this person who has virtually attacked the flotilla?

The website has been taken down so that particular vector has been removed. The related startrek.website instance defederated from db0 and other instances have defederated from st.w due to all this.

The individual had at least 2 known alt accounts, so it's likely they have more and will pop back up like a noxious weed.

Somebody has to jot it down for the "Rise and rise and rise of the fediverse"-Video in 20 years.