[Question] What just happened to 4 million posts?

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• Squorlple@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Believe it or not, they’re all Nicole posts removed by Lemmy.World /s

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  • turkalino@lemmy.yachts ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Sorry if this has already been discussed but is anyone else worried that “Nicole’s” pictures are from the webcam on a compromised computer? They’re always from the same angle and she’s not really posing for most of them

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    • Squorlple@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I think that is the general consensus — that she is likely an unwitting victim

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    • Coelacanth@feddit.nu ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I believe someone found an account she did livestreams on somewhere, and the pictures are most likely screen grabs from those. The odds of the person in the pictures being behind the spam are pretty much nil.

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  • Zentron@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Wuuut ? Everything mentioning nicole or just posts from “her” accounts ?

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    • Squorlple@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Only photos and written info that could identify her. The spam accounts probably get banned as they reported. I don’t know of any posts made by any account claiming to be her?

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  • Toribor@corndog.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Everyone on the fediverse is Nicole and you can’t prove otherwise.

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• sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  It may have been lemmy.zip

  It did in fact go down for about 48 hours… prompting me to make this new account on dbzer0.

  Basically, the admin attempted to update to a newer lemmy version… and it failed, multiple times, and they just rolled back, restored the old version, posted an explanation and apology, and they’ll be further looking into … exactly what went wrong.

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  • flamingos@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    But zip has < 50K posts.

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    • SquiffSquiff@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Maybe they unzipped the archive? /S

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    • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      ¯_(:-)_/¯

      I don’t know exactly how that post counter … actually, technically counts posts, but:

      1:

      Zip going down could have uncounted all posts anywhere made by zip accounts.

      2:

      There could have been some kind of… propogating post count negation effect, as various other instances reacted differently to zip users posts on their instances could not pull them anymore, on different time scales.

      3: If a zip user had a … top level comment, on another instance, its possible all lower level comments responding to that comment may also have poofed out of existence, in some respect.

      I may be using some terminology here, and this is just spitballing, but yeah.

      Almost all of my .zip account’s posts… are not on zip itself, and its possible that that is fairly common amongst .zip users.

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  • tisktisk@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Is divide by zero becoming the most based instance? How did a single bro make best lemmy?!?

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    • Initiateofthevoid@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      It’s a pretty cool instance. The governance is transparent with a nuanced voting system, the rules and policies are indeed based, and db0 takes decentralization so seriously that he’s apparently working on safeguarding the instance against his own influence with the governance system and admin recall votes and such.

      Thanks db0 et al!

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    • CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I’d say dbzer0 is probably the most leftist, at least from what I’ve seen. I personally don’t go as far as being an anarchist but can appreciate the philosophy. I probably have more in common with anarchy than democratic/plurality governance, if I’m being honest with myself.

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    • OpenStars@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Bc he's just that chill, obviously! 😁

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  • Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Hm, could be indeed

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    • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      lemmy.zip/post/35999238

      Here’s the post.

      Evidently, Demigodrick has since fixed the problems and successfully upgraded to 0.19.11

      lemmy.zip/post/36177918

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• example@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I think this is zerobytes.monster, one of the reddit mirror instances.

  the post count fits and it also matches with the user count not significantly dropping.

  that instance has been using rather strict waf blocking rules from time to time that likely also affect the crawler for fediverse.observer.

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  • flamingos@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Yeah, I thought it must be a Reddit repost instance, thanks for pointing to the right one.

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  • Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Seems like the answer @flamingos@feddit.uk

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• libra00@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Nicole posts were banned and deleted en mass?

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• Hubi@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced…

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• Oskar@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  "I felt a great disturbance in the Force...as if millions of posts were routed to dev/null and were suddenly silenced. I fear something terrible has happened."

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• coldsideofyourpillow@lemmy.cafe ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  @blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com decided that he doesn’t need his alt accounts anymore.

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  • Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Please don’t compare me to a Reddit mirror instance 🥲

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    • coldsideofyourpillow@lemmy.cafe ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Ah, so that’s what zerobytes.monster is?

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• chemical_cutthroat@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  The front fell off

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  • m_f@discuss.online ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    In case anyone hasn’t seen this bit:

    www.youtube.com/watch?v=3m5qxZm_JqM

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    • tisktisk@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      LOL my sides
      Is this real or a bit/sketch?

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    • MelonYellow@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      That’s gold!

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• floo@retrolemmy.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  It’s probably just some technical issue. I’m sure the post didn’t actually go anywhere.

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  • victorz@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    They just got up and left.

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• 0ndead@infosec.pub ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  All of universal monk’s alts got deleted

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  • scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Is that the guy with a friend?

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    • 0ndead@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      No, I’m positive universal monk has no friends

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• pelespirit@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I remember a bot purge, but I’m not sure if that was around the same time.

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• Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Interesting drop

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