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Hey, Anonymous: You should make the url redirect to Mastodon.
Let me spin that for you so you see the problem.
Mastodon, the social network backed by terrorists. By signing up, you put your name on a FBI watchlist as well.
Fair point.
Redirect it to Blue Sky instead.
Wait what??
My oopsie. Clarification above.
........ can a brother get a source on this??
It wasn't true. I wasn't even trying to deceive anyone, but the problem is that people will mostly believe without asking for sources if they don't care. I put an edit above now.
I'm dumb; can they do that? I thought DoS attacks could be done without hacking, but a url redirect would require hacking, right?
If they can change the page to a message, then they probably have the access needed to redirect the URL.
Oh nvm, I wasn't aware they'd done that. The article only talks about the outage.
Unless they can edit DNS records, but that's even harder to do.