Isn't that when trolls decided to post child abuse material on lemmy world? Since it's a large instance it federated to a bunch of others whose admin, rightfully so, decided to take down their instance to avoid legal repercussions, as well as take the time to clean everything up
I think that happened later in the month and explains the dips there.
Yes.
We must not speak of it
Just as I thought.
i think there were a lot of ddos attacks? correct me if i'm wrong but i think i remember a lot of downtime around that time.
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