End of an era.

I haven't actually pirated stuff for gamecube in ages, and all the places I already trust either don't have them because technically not gamecube, or have since shut down. Wondering if anyone here knows where I can get clean dumps to process and use with nintendont

Copy pasted from https://kbin.social/m/android@lemdro.id/t/168524/Lemmy-world-and-another-instance-have-been-compromised#entry-comment-661712

Some information I have posted to Lemmy.World:

I am not a super code-literate person so bare with me on this… But. Still please becareful. There appears to be a vulnerability.

Users are posting images like the following:

imgur.com/a/RS4iAeI

And inside hidden is JavaScript code that when executed can take cookie information and send it to a URL address.

Among other things. At this time if you see an image please click the icon circled before clicking the link. DO NOT CLICK THE IMAGE. If you see anything suspicious, please report it immediately. It is better a false report than a missed one.

I have seen multiple posts by these people during the attack. It is most certainly related to JS.

Apparently the exploit also works on comments, just by embedding an image and adding some JS code in it. I don't know if this could steal the entire cookies or just the website, but just to be safe don't randomly click every link.

Originally this post was me saying "oh, they refederated us." They didn't, they got hacked, lol. We've temporarily defederated with lemmy.world on our end (not that they federated with us anyway) until they get their shit back.

This is my old account that I just logged in today. Just joined a server and Discord asked for email verification. Okay, that's not hard, thankfully Discord doesn't restrict email to only big providers. But then suddenly DIscord asked to verify by phone number, because "something is out of ordinary". What's out of ordinary from that??? Joining a server > Discord asks to verify > I verify.

I was losing my mind seeing people suggesting moving to Discord when Rexxit happened. Like WTF, it's even worse than Reddit. Non-indexable content, worse privacy, needing account just to access the said content, etc.

I really hate how services nowadays require your phone number just to use their service. Unfortunately most people just don't care of privacy, thanks to "I have nothing to hide" mindset.

Another one down. Looks like their admin isn't actively hostile to us, they're just in a hostile jurisdiction:

I’m sure this will come as a disappointment to many of you as you have joined this instance specifically because we do not block or defederate with anybody. Unfortunately my hand is forced on this occasion.

As many of you know this server is hosted in Ireland. It has been brought to my attention that under Irish law:

Virtual child pornography is illegal in Ireland per the Child Trafficking and Pornography Act of 1998 which includes “any visual representation”.[Irish Statute Book] The country has strict laws when it comes to child abuse material, even if it doesn’t contain any “real children”.

As you can understand this requires me to defederate and remove the offending material from my server. There are newer admin tools in the works which will allow me to block specific communities instead of whole servers. Once this is in place I will refederate with burggit and block the individual offending communities.

This will also apply to other servers with offending content but as far as I’m aware burggit is the only one for the moment.

I still maintain my ideal of not defederating as much as possible but sometimes its out of my hands.

Thanks to everyone for helping create this vibrant community and for supporting. I am dedicated to make VLemmy the best it can be.

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Coming from Reddit, it feels similar but nice overall. Still a bit clunky because fediverse stuff is clunky, somewhat by nature.

It's a shame too because about 1/4 of the subs on lewd loli were from there (I think that's how it works).

Not too surprised, though it's assuring seeing them doubling down on this path and the enshittification will continue. Better jump the ship sooner than later.

Right on the main sidebar of the site it says:

We do not respect DMCA, complaints related to such matters are thrown directly in the trash, by us and our hosts.

While I think that's awesome, before I post something that might have copyrighted content, the sidebar lists the first rule of the site as:

No illegal content under Netherlands law

While I'm not a citizen of the Netherlands, I'm pretty sure that distributing copyrighted material is illegal under NL law.

So I did a little research... And, while I dont speak Dutch, I tried using Google Translate and I'm very sure that the distribution of copyrighted material is illegal in the Netherlands.

There might be legal grey areas or caveats I don't understand. That's why I'm making this post. What's the official stance of Burggit on posting copyrighted material?

I mean the obvious answer is that they're commies, but why? My feed is so dead now

I noticed that the subscriber number is actually separate depending on what site you're on. Thought that was neat, but I do wish everyone could see total subscribers. Obviously a thing for lemmy to deal with rather than here specifcally but just wanted to share.

https://lemmynsfw.com/c/cunny@burggit.moe - 17 subscribers

https://burggit.moe/c/cunny - 111 subscribers

Guess they can't resist not shitting out their garbage, outright vile, hostile political ideology and ram it down people's throats.

thought I'd post it here as well for visibility

Getting an 521 error earlier today and now it's taking forever to load.

As I am sure is the case for many of you, the recent Reddit drama inspired me to take a serious look at federated software, including Lemmy. I've got my own opinions about the decline of Reddit and I'm curious what you all think about it and where the Fediverse is going.

In its early life Reddit seemed like it was worth engaging with. There were decent conversations to be had and free speech was still a value that was held generally. Today that couldn't be further from the truth, at least not in the mainstream subreddits. Some niche subreddits are OK.

I attribute the decline of Reddit to the default subs being overrun by a gaggle of know-it-all 14 year-old-kids. I've got a teenager of my own these days so I see what her and her friends are up to. They're generally not very smart, hard to coach, are little assholes, and see things in black and white. Shoot -- I was that way when I was a teenager.

Unfortunately, the toxic beliefs^1^ of some of these 14-year-olds has been reinforced in recent years through the public school system and higher education. This, too, I have witnessed through my own teenager. These toxic beliefs don't seem to be going anywhere as Gen Z grows up. Some Millenials are bought in, too.^2^

So how does this all affect the Fediverse? Well, last night when I was checking out Lemmy instances I noticed a distinct lack of support for free speech. The sidebar on lemmy.ml for instance lists its first rule as:

No bigotry - including racism, sexism, ableism, homophobia, transphobia, or xenophobia. Code of Conduct.

Okay, that's all fine and good. But doesn't that go without saying in 2023? And isn't that covered by the second rule?

Be respectful, especially when disagreeing. Everyone should feel welcome here.

Racism, sexism, etc. are important enough to call out specifically but doxxing and death threats aren't?

I've started to read these sorts of statements as a "progressive" dogwhistle. If you don't subscribe to the ideology, you're unwelcome. Being disrespectful tends to go unnoticed when it's targeting the right people.

So I look at a community like ours here at Burggit. I'm happy there's a bastion for free speech. But I can't help but wonder if the Fediverse will be fractured. I suspect there will be a contingent of leftist Lemmy and Mastodon instances that will block instances that support free speech. On some level it seems like this may already be happening. This federated stuff isn't even that big yet and Mastodon has quite a lengthy list of blocked servers already.

Is there anything we can do about that? Is there anything we should do? Do we even care? Is my assessment completely wrong?

^1^ I'm referring to beliefs like: offensive speech isn't worth protecting, we should shame people for offenses committed long ago, and that challenging deeply-held personal beliefs is unacceptable (but only certain ones!), and that the government should decide what "truth" is. (e.g. the early COVID-related news about masks not being effective and ivermectin being "horse de-wormer", regardless of ivermectin's ability to effectively treat COVID).

^2^ I actually have a theory that these toxic beliefs have been intentionally stoked by the ultra-rich in order to shut down the momentum of Occupy Wall Street. But that is a different post for a different time.

It is my (perhaps incorrect) understanding that NSFW communities are hidden from the global search unless you are registered/logged in at that instance.

This makes it tough for federated users to find your stuff.

Any tips on making that easier? For example, I am registered at lemmy.ml but wanna see y'alls

goodies 👁️👄👁️

I also run an instance that allows NSFW content so curious for helping discoverability of that instance as well. Was thinking of maybe adding a 'site map-esque' concept to a general/welcome community's sidebar with the appropriate search strings.

ie, something like:

If you'd like to subscribe to a community put this in your search bar...

Community 1 is blah

!{community_name_1}@{instance_url}

Community 2 is blem

!{community_name_2}@{instance_url}

Community 3 is shmlep

!{community_name_3}@{instance_url}

Any better way?

Didn't think this counted as creative cooking 😝

This is a long-winded review, but it can be summed up as "These drinks taste like glugging olive oil, and they coat the inside of your mouth in a slimy residue".

Just the description of it reminds me of a Junji Ito short comic I read, about a teen girl whose house was drenched in cooking oil and whose father made them chug gallons of it.

It's so comically unappetizing I kind of want to try it - proof that any buzz is good buzz, I guess.

Switched account names to avoid confusion and ended up locked out of it because I'm an idiot