What is going on with the Lemmy world front page?
What is going on with the Lemmy world front page?
Is it a problem for everyone or just me? I'm getting a weird gif and the site name has been changed to left corner but the address is still the same. I do not know enough about computers or the federverse to know what is happening, I'm old enough that I came from a time when everything got hacked all the time and am just assuming it's been hacked or my account has been hacked or is the server owner having a breakdown, making a joke, or what? Because I feel like I'm missing something just because I left the house today and didn't check on Lemmy for a while.
MichelleG admin account was compromised. Account has been removed from admin but it's likely going to take a bit before everything is back to normal.
Just some child begging for attention while the adults are talking by compromising an admin account and posting shock sites. "Lemonparty, haha!" is how I might've reacted 20 years ago, these days more just sad how they had this opportunity and couldn't come up with anything more creative to do than just be generally annoying
Definitely not just you, looks like an exploit in the lemmi UI because it isn’t affecting third party apps.
Alas, lemmy.world was hacked a few hours ago and they're still struggling to undo the damage. It's not you!
Others are saying an admin account was compromised. It's been blocked and now they're working on repairing the damage done.
Thanks everyone for the information. Seems like it's what I thought it was and not some cool kid joke this old fart got left out of.
Third party apps are not affected. So you can use wefwef.app on desktop in the meantime.
From what I gather the database itself wasn't compromised beyond this single admin user. They were able to make a post that everyone who viewed it was redirected to another website with some kind of exploit of the markdown language.
Not good, but it seems like they could have done worse.
I'm getting the impression that there was some kind of hack or exploit lol