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.

[–]usehername[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

No problem. Can't say I haven't wondered if something fishy's going on, but it could be another missed bill. The site's not run by many people, lots could go wrong that isn't necessarily nefarious. No word from anyone yet. :/