Why did Saidit go down?

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[–]infocom6502 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

Was this some sort of DNS hack? I kept getting redirected to reddit

[–]usehername[S] 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

Apparently one of the owners set it up to redirect to the reddit sub when this site is down.

[–]infocom6502 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

makes sense, thanks!

was the outage caused by DoS attack, or just forgot to pay bill (I can't figure out whether they are joking in the discussion above)?

there've been a lot of outages of alt-sites recently over course of a few weeks (way longer for snew). saidit, conspiracies.win, snew.notabug .

Today i noticed the privacy twitter client seems to have been hit by hackers: nitter.cc , nitter.net both very kaputt

one can luckily still find many functioning instances, eg nitter.pussthecat.org

https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/wiki/Instances

i'd guess there's some sort of campaign (against Alt) going on.

[–]Ash 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

The first outage was because of 'unpaid' bills or something similar. Mag7 explained it further in a post a few days later. I haven't been on here in a while and wasn't aware that saidit was down again. I have my own suspicions and some reddit threads let me deeper into the rabbit hole.