I guess here it’s less prevalent because the site is still accessible, and most of the users don’t really follow closely the Lemmy versions.
Yea exactly. A DDoS is the sort of failure I’d imagine you need to shift people off. Not that big/central instances are completely bad. I think they help get people into the ecosystem that wouldn’t otherwise … and they turn out to be a pretty natural and constant phenomenon in the fediverse (mastodon.social is also about ~25% of masto) … to the point that I personally start to ask questions about alternative structures which we spoke about in another thread.