Lemmy.world has been compromised
Lemmy.world has been compromised
Title. Probably best not to go there till its all settled.
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Whelp. Glad I made an acc on lemme.ee too.
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Made accounts on at least 5 instances when I first joined lemmy. Definitely good to have backup.
Plus, when links send you to another instance (happens rather frequently), having an account prevents the blinding light mode flash.
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You can also install this userscript to automatically replace links to other instances to the local version on your main instance.
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just made an account, might be my main. we'll see how it pans out.
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Same here. I got booted from VLemmy when that instance mysteriously went down, and I decided to set up an account here having heard good things about the instance. So far so good, hopefully things get smoothed over soon.
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I was on VLemmy as well, but that seems to have just disappeared... I got redirected to a "do you want to buy this domain" page earlier, but now it's back to just not loading.
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Finally feeling like I'm back on the Wild West of the internet. Hope lemmy world gets un-lemon partied
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Yeah.... It's my main instance. Logged in via the website and it redirects to some nasty NSFW stuff. Another reason I have accounts on different instances. Wonder if vlemmy.net might have also been the victim of whoever is attacking lemmy.world.
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Unlikely, as the vlemmy.net admin closed all the donation links.
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This just gave me the push I needed to get off of lemmy.world; I was alredy considering it anyway because I feel like it's a little too big but now this was that final straw.
It seems like the admin wanted lemmy.world to become "the" Lemmy and the biggest one, and of course that is bound to get it the most attention, which also makes it more susceptible to people that wanna hack it. Yeah..... I'm done. Thank god for federation.
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perfect example of bigger might not be better
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I left Lemmy.world too and I can't even log back in to my old account to close my subs on that instance on account of the hacking.
That place is sus as fuck and I have strong reasons to think the admins of the place have been compromised. Centralizing people to one instance which defeats the point of federation, beig cagey and dodging the issue when users demanded they defederate from Threads, and then this.
Long live federation and it giving people a choice
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We know an issue occurred on the site over an hour ago with someone using my account to redirect the site, make fake posts, and change other settings. The problem has been corrected.
We will continue to monitor the situation and keep you informed.
@MichelleG@lemmy.world (the compromised admin)
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Site now has
as the top left icon, and the startpage redirects to some video that won't load again. Seems this isn't over-
MichelleG remains compromised. Most Posts don't show up on most pages anymore, the !telaviv@lemmy.world c has a new post "Hack has been fixed." by MichelleG
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Well I take it as a good sign for the fediverse. You know you've made it on the world stage when trolls and bad actors actually bother to come poke at your platform.
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First Vlemmy now this! I can't pick any good instances
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What about communities there? Will they be off-federated?
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Seems to be fixed now
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My account is still messed up. I can't see any posts either through a browser or Connect.
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Wow. I doubted you so I checked it out. Pinned posts about federation with threads.net that redirect to lemon party. At least it's some dumbass instead of a malicious actor that was trying to subtly mess with things.
It'll be good to shake all the low hanging security stuff out before election season really kicks off.
I won't check it out, but, wow, the last time I heard about lemon party maybe around 20 years ago.