Waiting patiently for all the Free Speech Warriors to decry Sourcehut's DDOS attack with the same vitriol they had toward Antenna choosing not to link to a capsule that you can still visit and read any time you want to.

🐝 november [he/fae]

Jan 12 · 4 months ago · 👍 Addison, sugar, corscada

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👤 nikhotmsk · Jan 12 at 18:56:

I am a Free Speech Warrior and I am here to defend Freedom of Speech. I think Sourcehut will recover on its own. DDOS is not eternal thing.

🐝 november [OP...] · Jan 12 at 19:23:

DDOS is an attack on free speech in a way that not linking to someone else's capsule is not. If you can't even understand that, thanks far proving my point.

🚀 stack · Jan 12 at 21:39:

I haven't kept up with DOS since MS-DOS 3.3. Amazing that it's still a thing!

🐝 november [OP...] · Jan 12 at 22:20:

The latest versions kind of suck 😤

🖥️ zetamacs · Jan 13 at 00:56:

@stack But FreeDOS is beautiful.

In all seriousness, november is right that DDoS can serve as a very potent attack on free speech. It's as disruptive as firing a bomb at a crowd of protestors.

The same cannot be said for failing to keep a link up.

🛞 Troler · Jan 13 at 15:06:

Didn't Codeberg suffer a DDOS attack 2 days ago?

🐝 november [OP...] · Jan 13 at 18:29:

It did, yeah. People are speculating it could be because they host Sourcehut's status page, or it could just be a "fuck you" to FOSS git forges in general, who knows.

🐝 Addison · Jan 14 at 05:59:

If denial-of-service is an attack on free speech, then so is a cafe closing early on a holiday. Y'all sound silly when you use constitutional terms to sensationalize the banal.

🐦 wasolili [...] · Jan 14 at 07:36:

@addison a ddos can be an attack on free speech since it is an unlawful attack on someone's ability to exercise their right to free expression. But I do agree that this thread is silly since the thread is just a bad faith attempt to reignite the antenna drama

🐝 november [OP...] · Jan 14 at 14:15:

Hint: I do not actually think anyone is violating Sourcehut's constitutional rights. I am making an observation about other people. Hope that helps.