RespectMyAuthoritehJul 25, 2023

#JustLemmyThings

https://lemmy.world/post/2157205

#JustLemmyThings - Lemmy.world

Show threadVuraniute
Lemmy guess, vlemmy?
Jul 25, 2023 at 9:18pmWeb
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.