eli5: What are distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks?

Question

I thought DDos was the same as doxxing someone, turns out I’m just stupid.

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Answer 1

Essentially someone can hijack a bunch of computers at once to go onto the same website at once so it crashes and doesn’t load for other people. that’s distributed denial of service.

To dox is to find someone’s personal info and post it.