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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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 remains compromised. Most Posts don't show up on most pages anymore, the [email protected] c has a new post "Hack has been fixed." by MichelleG
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.
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.
For real. Not some big government-sponsored hacking group subtlety pulling strings in the background or infecting everyone with 0-days. Just some rando who guessed a weak password, having some fun.
It can't. Threads still hasn't turned fedration on, and even when it does it's a microblogging site. It won't really interact with Lemmy much. From what I hear that's actually a link to lemonparty anyway. Just somebody trolling for the sake of trolling.
It is preemptive, but the admin from lemmy.world and mastodon.world indicated that they would not defederate preemptively and instead would defederate if they did something. The mere fact that threads exists constitutes doing something as far as I'm concerned which is why I moved over here.