Any de-federated instance doesn't have the money or resources to start DDOS attacks. You know who does? Large corporations who feel attacked at the very existence of large platforms such as lemmy.world.
Who do we know with those resources, funding, knowledge of software (in general, as well as able to place specific people to learn about certain FOSS projects that have their code available), and the desire to spend such resources?
You know it's Reddit Co, we know it's Reddit Co. They know they're doing it too.
Fuck Spez and his bullshit army. I hope they can sleep well in their suburban McMansions while they sell out their future.
Conspiracy is one thing, this is just obvious.
I guess, but a little fanboy won't be able to afford to do it day after day for months. Big corpo surely can