Sure but it is ultimately futile because Mastodon, using the ActivityPub protocol, aka The Fediverse, can’t be completely shut down. Somebody ddos’s one instance, well there are other instances you can join to easily defeat the ddos.
You make a good point, however a counterpoint: Instance information is not hidden. It would be relatively trivial for a bad actor with resources to DDOS one instance to add other instances.
The DDoS perpetrators
Well they targeted the biggest instance. Their attack didn’t stop mastodon as a whole, but many users were impacted
Maybe it was about silencing s/o on this instance for some time. Idk.
Sure but it is ultimately futile because Mastodon, using the ActivityPub protocol, aka The Fediverse, can’t be completely shut down. Somebody ddos’s one instance, well there are other instances you can join to easily defeat the ddos.
You make a good point, however a counterpoint: Instance information is not hidden. It would be relatively trivial for a bad actor with resources to DDOS one instance to add other instances.