As I pointed out in the thread it was probably a few Lemmy users themselves that did it.
as someone who uses the app, extremely little effect from my experience, I didn’t notice something was wrong at all until people pointed it out due to how liftoff does the whole sidebar thing for the instance.
It’s still better to change your account password and clear your cache.
I think people are forgetting that it’s somewhat obvious the hackers or whomever, I don’t really care honestly are Lemmy users considering they did this at night and got into the site so quickly to begin with, they’d have to have been familiar with it to get into it as fast as they did.
If anything everything should be fixed.
Here’s a relevant post that talked about this with @[email protected] I think is worth looking into for anyone curious what exactly happened.
https://sh.itjust.works/post/923025
please don’t visit the legal section of the website or anything confirmed compromised if anything.
I think the main developers are aware of either of them but I’m not sure, haven’t seen anyone site admin wise talk about this mess.
Probably. I had to re-login myself.
Also I am curious, what’s the easiest way to currently reach the admins in case this happens again somehow? Two of them on their account have been seemingly inactive for a month and as per your own statement you rarely check your notifications and dms. Is there a discord somewhere for it?
what steps are being taken to ensure it doesn’t happen again? was any personal data compromised for users?
Looks like this thread is getting mass downvoted by bots btw
the big difference is Lemmy and other sites got popular now as a result of people finally realizing “wow the modernized internet is pretty much complete dogshit”
the only thing that’s been basically different is people trying and rather unsuccessfully to create an alternative to the bigger sites. 9/10 most of them have failed, but with Lemmy considering how much and how dedicated the userbase has been so far.
My point was mostly “if Lemmy can be bought out” (which I really doubt) “then the internet is just blatantly fucked and there’s not anywhere to go period.”
Lemmy, which I’m currently using through liftoff seems like the best solution and has a rather dedicated userbase in general. I’m excited to be here but there’s always the worry something could go wrong with it
If the Lemmy admins sides with people like zuck, which they shouldn’t because they’re literal communists I’m going to laugh so hard, internet would pretty much be fucked lol
Thank god, wasn’t able to use the site lol
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nice try FBI
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Oh that’s fucked up, that means really fucking old videos on YouTube could be lost.
I do not like the SCOTUS
lolwut, that’s bizarre it’s not letting me use it unless they messed something up.
HOLY SHIT I LUCKED OUT LMAO, I ALMOST CLICKED ON THAT EARLIER