The DDOS thing predates and has already been solved before your video, really we already got DOS'd by some clown who got banned from the server for cheating back in 2024. It's just a security issue that every server of notable size has to deal with. Every server has to deal with cheaters, and cheaters are nothing but script kiddies, bothosting and ddosing are also commonplace and easily performed via scripts, and if a loser is willing to cheat he's willing to try to shut down the server if he's dumb enough to pay for scripts that do it for him. Any server worth it's salt needs to be ready to fight these animals, and that's exactly what we did.
So, calling Castaway an "unmoderated server" isn't entirely accurate. There's plenty of moderation, it's just that 99% of players never have to deal or worry about it. We have hundreds of bans on the server. We just moderate the things that actually need moderating. Cheaters, bots and snakes that try to sabotage the server and ruin the experience for our community were, are and will continue being thrown out on their ass. We don't feel the need to infringe on people's freedom to play and speak how they want, which is why we don't have a dozen pages of rules that you have to study through when you just want to play the game and talk some shit like Robin Walker (pbuh) intended, but we will not hesitate to eliminate the sad freakshows and losers who cheat, grief or try to abuse the liberties that the server provides in an attempt to damage it.
We mock and will continue to mock the draconian hellhole servers that ban people for breathing the wrong way, but total anarchy is just as laughable a concept, unless you want to end up playing hvh with actual chomos.
We moderate - in moderation.