Probably some bored kids.

What would be the probability of u/spez being behind this attack, in an attempt to sabotage lemmy?

Lets be honest... he is too busy single-handedly destroy reddit to worry about messing with Lemmy. I think lemmy is the least of his issues right now.

Absolutely zero.

The Walgreens drugstore got robbed. Was their competitor, CVS, behind it?

Minimal. It frankly just doesn't actually advance his goals very significantly. Nor is he a particularly clever man that thinks of unusual strategies.

I think his focus is on squeezing his current userbase more than any kind of long term caring about the size of it. Wouldn't be surprised if he plans to quit his job in the next 5 years and collect a fat severance anyway. He'd rather people not leave, but DDoSing a small chunk of people somewhere else doesn't really help much.

This is a random attack, so ask yourself who benefits? For one thing, it's fun. It also pisses some people off. It also irritates a fairly politically active population.

Who wants all those things? Trolls, of course. Why are they, specifically, trolling? Varies individual to individual, but mainly it's about causing pain to others.

FYI, this is an attempt at humour, clearly "/s" is needed on lemmy as much as it was on reddit 😅

Some of the larger subreddits probably have more traffic than all of lemmy. I don't think he's spending his time trying to figure out how to sabotage lemmy.

@yggdar

Well just don’t discount the possibility that somebody is doing it just for the lolz.

When it comes to this sort of thing there doesn’t need to be any rational motivation or intention to sabotage.

@Burns

Well I’m blaming him regardless of his involvement