Comment on WARNING: Lemmy Self-Hosters, There Have Been CSAM Attacks taking place against !lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world

aseriesoftubes@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• SheeEttin@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The simplest explanation is 4chan types just doing it for the lulz.

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• Kungolicious@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  My tin foil hat is telling me it’s one of the other social media companies funding a hacking group to do it. They stand to have the most to lose, and they’ve seemingly decided to enjoy changing the narrative regarding multiple topics. Lemmy stands directly against what the bigger social medias stand for.

  I have no evidence to back this though. As a business owner I just know that things become very consistent when people are being paid, and very inconsistent when they aren’t. These attacks are seemingly very consistent/organized.

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  • phillaholic@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You think a company that is posed to go public is going to attack a competitor with a minuscule amount of traffic with extremely illegal material that could put them in prison for even having?

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    • Kungolicious@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Reddit? No. I was thinking moreso Meta. They have the deeper pockets and a proven track record of breaking privacy laws to their own benefit.

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      • phillaholic@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        That’s even worse. Meta probably doesn’t even know what Lemmy is.

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  • The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    There must be room under that tinfoil hat for the both of us, because this was my first thought too.

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    • GONADS125@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      The longer it continues, the more likely that scenario is IMO. Bitter alt-right extremists would probably start losing interest after a short while, whereas social media competitors would stand to gain from long-term interference.

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    • Kungolicious@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Come on in! There’s cookies.

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• CryptoRoberto@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I wouldn’t put it past the hexbear crazies throwing a tantrum. They claim to be left wing… Sure seem more like fascist trumper types though. Maybe it’s just that they’re all incels and incels all seem about the same.

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  • Fylkir@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Throwing a tantrum about what exactly? They’re one of the oldest-running Lemmy instances. Until now they were running a fork based on a pre-Federation version of the codebase.

    You believe they did a bunch of work migrating their database only to then negate that work by destroying the community they wanted to Federate with?

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    • Rentlar@lemmy.ca ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      At least a handful of users on hexbear had made their intention clear during the first week of re-federation, they were looking to cause chaos on Lemmy for there own pleasure. I don’t know if they were banned and/or their comments deleted.

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• Ep1cFac3pa1m@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Considering all the alt-right garbage that was popping up there the last couple of days this seems at least plausible. I sometimes envy their ability to utterly destroy anything they touch.

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