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#JustLemmyThings - Lemmy.world

Jul 25, 2023 at 9:04pmWeb
Show threadVuraniuteJul 25, 2023
Lemmy guess, vlemmy?
Show threadlohrunJul 25, 2023
Out of the loop, what happened to vlemmy?
Show threadshootwhatsmynameJul 26, 2023
must have been the one seized by the FBI for CSAM that I was hearing about—but don’t quote me on that
Show threadLemdeeJul 26, 2023

Why would anybody quote you for something that clearly pulled out of your ass? There was no CSAM instance seized by the FBI, at least not any major instance that had any articles or papers on it. There was a study done that found that there was some CSAM on the fediverse and made recommendations to address it. That same study that it’s far less prevalent on the fediverse than it is on Instagram or Twitter but for some reason decided to put that information in section four which is all the way on page eight of their pdf.

…stanford.edu/…/20230724-fediverse-csam-report.pd…

Show threadGeneralVincentJul 26, 2023
Are you thinking of the mastodon based Kolektiva.social? The server hosting it was apparently seized by the FBI for an unrelated raid on the owner of the instance. There wasn’t anything related to CSAM in that situation though
Show threadjonneJul 26, 2023
The server wasn’t raided, the person being raided had an unencrypted backup of the instance database on their personal computer, which got seized in a raid unrelated to the Mastodon server.
Show threadUniquitousJul 26, 2023

must have been the one seized by the FBI for CSAM that I was hearing about—but don’t quote me on that

– [email protected]

Show threadPinklinkJul 26, 2023
Never say don’t quote me
Show threadLocalhorst86Jul 26, 2023

Never say

Show threadvuranJul 27, 2023
Nope, AFAIK the only CSAM instance I know of was burggit.
Show threadLemdeeJul 26, 2023

vlemmy was on a free .ml domain but unfortunately the .ml top-level domain got taken back by the Mali Government. Same thing happened to lemmy.fmhy.ml which was pretty big too.

“.ml” stands for Mali

Show threadbdonvrJul 26, 2023
No. vlemmy was vlemmy.net
Show threadbdonvrJul 26, 2023

Actual answer:

The admin just kinda wiped everything without any announcement. Shut down donation links and all. As far as I’ve heard nobody ever figured out why.

Show threadtrashcanJul 25, 2023
Reminder to always backup your subscriptions/blocks to an alt acct using LASIM or something similar.
Show threadCassowaryTomJul 25, 2023
Rip.
Show thread001100 010010Jul 25, 2023
lemmy.fmhy.ml?
Show threadKorne127Jul 25, 2023
What happened to them?
Show thread001100 010010Jul 25, 2023
.ml top-level domain got taken back by the Mali Government “.ml” stands for Mali
Show threadMonologueJul 25, 2023
.ml links are being taken back by the mali government
Show threadKrestenJul 25, 2023
Do you have any sources because that sounds very weird
Show threadMonologueJul 25, 2023
feel free to read the official announcement
??cat (@nullishcat)

Gonna try and explain what's happening with this: * .ml domains (the one fmhy.ml was on) has been reclaimed by the Mali government * Freenom is also being sued by Meta (and has been for the past few months) * Both of these have resulted in fmhy, along with a lot of other domains, to be unresolvable * Changing domains will cause us to have to refederate and start mostly from scratch (although we might be able to transfer posts and users) I'll try and keep you all updated on this.

very.bignutty.xyz
Show threadKrestenJul 25, 2023
Thanks
Show threadmihntJul 26, 2023
ublock blocked that site?
Show threadMonologueJul 26, 2023
that’s weird, i use ublock origin too and i don’t have a problem. the link is just a firefish instance.
Show threadu/lukmly013 💾 (lemmy.sdf.org)Jul 26, 2023

AdGuard filter as well.

It’s probably because very.bignutty.xyz sounds suspicious.

Show threadmihntJul 26, 2023

Probably because it is suspicious. That’s what I got when I tried to go there. Fuck that site.

Show threadMonologueJul 26, 2023
here it is from mastodon.social, that should solve it
Show threadKorne127Jul 25, 2023
What do you mean with taken back? Don’t they need to… give it away for someone to get a ML domain?
And what about vlemmy?
Show threadjonneJul 26, 2023
The rules set by the registrar are that any ml domain needs to be used for something relating to Mali. Presumably you could run a Lemmy instance that has a focus on Malian content and keep using the domain within the rules, but the way Lemmy.ml was using it was obviously not.
Show threadMonologueJul 26, 2023
@[email protected] is right about the .ml part, as for vlemmy one day it just stopped existing. nobody knows why. some people are theorising that the admin did not want to moderate and shut the instance down.
Show threadbdonvrJul 26, 2023
They say that. But lemmy/the fediverse really doesn’t allow domain name changes…
Show threadpreciouspuppJul 25, 2023
You have now became a digital ronin.
Show threadmvirtsJul 26, 2023
You’re the admin now, Dog
Show threadegeresJul 26, 2023
Isn’t the fediverse fragile long-term wise from a structural point of view? I have this feeling that a ton of small lemmy instances will die over the years taking content away (I don’t expect this will happen with lemmy.world). Is this something that could happen? Will it be a problem?
Show threadjanonymousJul 26, 2023
I thought the content will still be available on the other instances that were federated before the instance went down.
Show threadegeresJul 26, 2023
It’s possible I’m wrong!! I’m still learning about the mechanics of the fediverse
Show threadNalivaiJul 26, 2023
It is stored on the instance. If the instance goes, the content is gone too.
I don’t know exactly will something be cached, but even if it is, eventually it will be invalidated too.
Show threadFranklinJul 26, 2023
Could we do something like a central ledger for users that an instance could opt in to hosting but still isn’t controlled centrally?
Show threadrmukJul 26, 2023
Representing the quorum in some kind of logical chain of consensus-derived blocks, you say?
Show threadDespairJul 26, 2023
Text is federated between instances while images are hosted on the home instance assuming you didn’t just embed an image from somewhere else like Imgur. I dont believe lemmy hosts any videos, but that might just be an instance admin thing.
Show threadNalivaiJul 26, 2023
One way to deal with it is to add an easy way to transfer users and posts from one instance to another. I’m pretty sure there are tickets about it, but I don’t know what’s the status of it.
Show thread🇨🅾️🇰🅰️N🇪Jul 26, 2023
Rip free Media heck yeah
Show threadpewgar_seemsimandroidJul 27, 2023
what was it