PowerfulTurtle

joined 2 years ago
 

Many older versions of Lemmy have a vulnerability that enables XSS attacks allowing malicous users to steal login tokens. If you hold an account here I highly recommend deleting it before you leave.

This is my final post to Rammy.site, farewell all and thanks for all the fish

[–] PowerfulTurtle@rammy.site 2 points 2 years ago

Yeam me too. I moved to lemmy.ca though. It's a nice instance, definitely more active though, but it doesn't federate with rammy so I can feel safe there again.

 

Rammy has been abandoned by its creator and other instances are defederating from it. If you are still an account holder here on rammy I encourage you to delete your account here and sign up to another instance.

I recommend you try and find one that blocks rammy, otherwise the salty chuds that have been defacing the platform will likely go and harass you there. Please if you are a longtime member consider moving to another instance, and if you have a community here recreate it on said instance. This instance is dead.

While I was writing this the site had an error which initially prevented me from posting, though it seems to have resolved itself, for how long the site will continue to stay up I am not sure, which is why it is important you migrate quickly.

[–] PowerfulTurtle@rammy.site 1 points 2 years ago

It's better to have them forget about it and have the server and its communities locked than it is to have them left open to abuse in your absence. At least in the case of the locked one they can still use it on their communities on other instances (I see no reason to lock existing users, just registrations, community creation, and maybe posts and comments on hosted communities).

[–] PowerfulTurtle@rammy.site 1 points 2 years ago

Having a team of admins is another good solution to this problem since if one disappears the others can still do the work while they are gone.

[–] PowerfulTurtle@rammy.site 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yup it's a proxy to circumvent defederation, they're just posting shit there because at least when they started it was federated with many others. They'll probably just flee elsewhere but this is why it's very important to make sure you have people to manage the instance in case you aren't able to anymore.

[–] PowerfulTurtle@rammy.site 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

make sure to block burggit.moe as well they're known for CSAM material, also lemmy.comfysnug.place for the same reasons.

 

A while back I signed up to rammy.site a small lemmy instance run by a single person. It was a very nice instance, very stable and had pretty good access to other instances, or at least it used to. Recently though all of that has changed when the instance was taken over by far right-wing users from the right-wing instance known as exploding-heads, an instance which has been blocked by many others for the hateful content they post and the abusive behavior of its members. The reason that this was even allowed to happen was that the admin stopped moderating the server but left the server online, this is a problem because it means that anyone can hop onto the server and start posting whatever they want and create whatever communities they want and no-one can stop them.

There isn't much you can do to prevent going innactive but there are ways to mitigate what happened on rammy.site to prevent a full blown catastrophe like what has happened here. If you run a server and you are going to be going away for a while I'd recommend turning off account registration and community creation on your instance, that wouldn't prevent federated users and existing users from spamming existing communities but it would help against users joining the site and creating new communities which is what happened here on rammy.

I understand that it's not always possible to always be there to moderate your instance but you can at lease take steps to ensure that in your absence the instance won't be utterly decimated and/or used as a weapon to spread hatred or attack other instances.

[–] PowerfulTurtle@rammy.site 2 points 2 years ago

I'll try to help as much as I can but I'm in the process of finding a new instance, preferably one that doesn't federate with rammy or exploding-heads because I know I'll get plenty of DM harassment otherwise if I don't due to my defederation campaign.

Trying to do it soon because rammy is unmoderated and I don't want to be here when anyone worse comes and starts going to war on the instance with any amount of unspeakably horrible abusive material, there are some really disgusting and illegal lemmy instances out there and rammy has none of them blocked.

Though there is hope in the future, since rammy is abandoned eventually its hosting or domain-registration (whichever comes first) will run out and when it does the site will go down and their fun will be over.

In the meantime I'll focus on spreading the word about rammy.site and making sure people know about this so they'll never leave their instances abandoned, at least not without turning off registration first.

[–] PowerfulTurtle@rammy.site 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It's not drastic considering the circumstances, the instance is unmoderated their admin isn't available, that's as good a reason as any to defederate them. The instance also doesn't have a blocklist, it doesn't block any instances it's also on outdated software and being unmoderated that is a recipe for disaster.

[–] PowerfulTurtle@rammy.site 5 points 2 years ago

I just looked at the instance list and they're literally federated with burggit.moe so yeah I would definately describe this instance as a timebomb very much worth defederating, there actually aren't any instances blocked on here on rammy which seems nice until you realize just how many known awful ones there are that are connected and accessible to rammy.

This shouldn't even be something being debated, the instance is abandoned, people are posting hateful content, and it's federated to the worst of the worst instances on the fediverse.

[–] PowerfulTurtle@rammy.site 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

This is why I'm encouraging people to defederate from rammy, assholes like this are going to use it as a point to post shit to the rest of the instances. If it's defederated they're no better off than they were on exploding-heads and it'll be harder for them to spread their hatred.

[–] PowerfulTurtle@rammy.site 1 points 2 years ago

Have not been defederated, they're not in the blocked section on the instances page.

[–] PowerfulTurtle@rammy.site 1 points 2 years ago

Alright, will do that instead in the future. In hindsight I probably should've because they just came after me when they saw the posts.

[–] PowerfulTurtle@rammy.site 5 points 2 years ago

Go look at what they're posting and then come back here.

 

Rammy.site has been overrun by bigots from exploding-heads they are posting transphobic content accusing LGBT people of being groomers and also posting climate denial. They're likely posting here because it is a small instance with an Admin who is currently MIA and/or not moderating the instance. For this reason it is imperative that it be defederated to stop these bigots from using it to spread their hate to other instances.

 

Recently it has come to my attention that the instance where my account is located rammy.site has been taken over by right wing bigots from the site exploding-heads they have created many hateful communities and have started posting transphobic content and climate denial. There's also quite a bit of community spam on here.

I very strongly advocate that the admins of this instance defederate from rammy.site as soon as humanly possible to stop the spread of their toxic shit to other instances.

 

Admins of Lemmy.ml please consider defederating from rammy.site it has been taken over by right wing malicious actors from exploding-heads.com and the admin is nowhere to be found.

It is imperative that you take action as soon as possible the users on rammy are using the site to spread their messages to a further audience, we must nip this in the bud. If you don't believe me check the instance for yourself, you'll see it dominated with bigoted right wing posts and spam communities.

 

Dear Admins of the Lemmy.world instance I am asking that you please consider defederating from the rammy.site instance as soon as possible as the admin is no where to be found and it has been taken over by right wing posters posting hateful messages. There are also other people posting large amounts of spam and creating empty communities. What was once a small hobby run general purpose instance has been turned over and made into a festering right wing hate filled breeding ground by the people from exploding-heads. The only recoarse left it seems is to defederate to prevent them from spreading hate to other instances.

PS. I already sent this message to multiple admins here, sorry about that I just felt it was urgent to make sure the message was sent before these people cause more damage.

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