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Re:Reddit Is Down by ck2 on Wednesday August 11, 2021 @10:40PM (#28151083)
For non-cached content, sure?

All you have to do is exhaust enough database fetching and rendering on the backend for non-cached content and even amazon goes down (ie. black friday downtime).

It would take an impressive amount of resources but who knows what blackhatters are selling these days.

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Re:Reddit Is Down by unityByFreedom on Wednesday August 11, 2021 @10:44PM (#28151114)
You'd need to use logged in accounts to get uncached content, so wouldn't you be burning through a lot of accounts to do it? Seems like something you could only do once in awhile. Doesn't seem worth it for a simple quarantining of a sub.
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