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.

  • Zron@lemmy.worldEnglish
    53·
    6 hours ago

    It’s dictator syndrome. There’s always going to be a subset of the population that, after acquiring the faintest whiff of power or authority, seizes it like a drowning man.

    • Wildmimic@anarchist.nexusEnglish
      6·
      3 hours ago

      @ineedmana@piefed.zip @1984@lemmy.today @rustysharp@programming.dev @iglou@programming.dev @digit@lemmy.wtf

      You all made some very good points, and I think the answer lies somewhere at the focal point of all your theories at once. It takes a special kind of mentality to start a project like this, and factors like pressure, emotional baggage and/or instability, narcissism, autism, ADHD all come together, explaining the exceptionally violent breakdowns we’re seeing in the solo dev field.