The pirate voice in my head nearly ran out of breath singing the post title.

That sounds difficult.

You know, I bet a software engineer could write up something to help with it!

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This one is going in my dad joke arsenal. Thank you

If I had seen it posted, I would have held off. I’m not subbed to every community on this instance if you saw it somewhere else.

So, from memory there has been:

• This recent attack
• Regular DDOS attacks
• Frequent attempts to spam community creation
• That one time the instance got hacked and set to redirect to shock sites

Am I missing anything?

This seems like more than just a few trolls. Maybe someone really doesn’t want to see user-owned social media take off.

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There must be room under that tinfoil hat for the both of us, because this was my first thought too.

I don’t buy that Bar/Restaurant has steadily increased as people have become more isolated.

My guess is it’s a self-reporting error, where people meet on dating apps, but are reporting where they first met in person.