For those who don't know: Kiwi farms is a forum dedicated to being mean to people, particularly women who have an Internet presense, in weirdly obsessive threads that go for thousands of posts.
Unless we can link to a status page or other discussion of Kiwi Farms, linking to them here seems to only make things worse.<p>I'd never heard of it so here goes (from [1]):<p>> Kiwi Farms, formerly known as CWCki Forums, is an American Internet forum dedicated to the ongoing harassment and stalking of online figures and communities it deems "lolcows": the eccentric, artistic, or mentally ill.<p>It's likely a target of DDoS related to the mass shootings here in the US this past weekend. Is there a specific role they played in these specific events or is it just retribution for their rejection of norms?<p>[1] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiwi_Farms" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiwi_Farms</a>
Kiwifarms, as someone else pointed out, is primarily a gossip site that also <i>really</i> enjoys doxxing pedophiles and zoosadists. It has roots in trolling, but these days it actively discourages harassing subjects on the grounds that these people don't need to be prodded to be entertaining, they do that themselves via their own terrible behavior.<p>It tends to lean right as a general rule, but the members are all over the place politically and ideologically, and where they congregate differs hugely depending on which thread you're in.<p>In short, it's a site full of shitty people sitting around laughing at even worse people.
Wikipedia:<p>> Kiwi Farms, formerly known as CWCki Forums, is an American Internet forum dedicated to the ongoing harassment and stalking of online figures and communities it deems "lolcows": the eccentric, artistic, or mentally ill.<p>I, uhh, what?
I wonder if we'll see a big move of such sites to ZeroNet or similar, it's fast and supports distributed databases, there's already a few imageboards on there looking to replace 8chan - 08chan and millchan. I'm sure it's hard for them to get users existing exclusively there, but adding clearnet portals to such services might do the job.
Obviously a Ddos is of some interest to the HN community, but is this story of interest to people? Seems like a site dedicated to harassment is under attack. Is anything interesting about this?