Wtf? What even is happening?
this post was submitted on 10 Jul 2023
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Compromised in what way? Can you post proof?
One of their admins (MichelleG) began posting messages about federation with only Threads. The site is redirecting users to Lemonparty (now there's a throwback). Site information has been vandalized with racist slurs.
Well, that escalated quickly.
Just go to lemmy.world and see for yourself. (Or don’t actually, might give you a virus or something idk)
Yeah I would like someone to post a screenshot i dont want to leak my ip
image here ![] (https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/0332b83a-ab01-4c99-9155-2a08b02fb652.png)
among several others
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I literally just made a community over there 20 mins ago fml
I'm seeing zero comments come out of Lemmy.world in the past 15 minutes, app users shouldn't have been redirected... and users commenting from other servers should be going to communities homed there. I wonder if they shut off federation. I normally see over 10 comments a minute: https://lemmyadmin.bulletintree.com/query/comments_ap_id_host_prev?output=table&timeperiod=15
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Well shit, just set up shop here. Had made a back up account on vlemmy the other day and that's down too. What's going on?
Vlemmy.net went down? Anyone know why or how?
No one knows, site went down suddenly with no explanation
And it’s likely we won’t get an explanation. The admin closed their donation accounts too. Looks like they either walked away or got seriously hacked. It seems they were worried about illegal material on their server, which was on their own machine at home, so walking away would make a lot of sense.
They had a pure open federation model, so anyone who subscribed to an instance that hosts child porn put the instance owner at risk of child porn possession charges. I wonder if the owner came across a problem file that was cached from an external server and said "Nope. Dealing with this is above my pay grade"
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They're stealing jwt tokens and noting when they're admin tokens.
https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/696053 https://lemmy.sdf.org/comment/850269
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It was cleaned up on the home page, but now back to being defaced as of this comment time.
Another user on the site confirmed this:
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Yikes, hope they can find and disclose whatever they used to compromise an admin account.