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Temporarily defederated from lemmy.world (and lemmy.blahaj.zone) as they seem to be compromised (lemmynsfw.com)
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We quietly defederated temporarily earlier because lemmy.world seemed to be compromised earlier in some way, but then it was fixed. Now it's happened again. Unsure what is going on over there but there isn't much use speculating. They have been dealing with weird redirects to shock sites like lemonparty (throwback). Whoever has compromised them seems to have some early 2010s internet sense of humor I guess.

Anyway, once they have things under control and an announcement is made we will refederate ASAP. For the time being, please avoid going to their homepage for the time being as we have no idea what the nature of the compromise of their site is and to what extent.

EDIT: seems lemmy.blahaj.zone just was as well. :(

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[–] NaibofTabr 2 points 2 years ago

It just occurred to me while reading this that this is one of the benefits of the federated system - resiliency. If something like this had happened on reddit the entire system would be down until repaired and recovered, but with Lemmy the unaffected instances can disconnect until the issue is resolved, and then reconnect after, while also observing the problem and taking steps to fix the vulnerability on their own systems.