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submitted 2 years ago by Mookulator@wirebase.org to c/lemmy@lemmy.ml

The Lemmy.world hack made a good opportunity to explore other instances out there. Found one based in my area. Back in action!

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[-] bev@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago

Afaik, unless lemmy.ml had patched the vulnerability like the lemmy.world folks, the instance is susceptible to the vulnerability.

[-] AzuleBlade@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

I almost made the rash, uninformed decision to close up shop on lemmy.world and move my community to another instance. Luckily I did some further reading, and yeah, unless whatever other instance I jumped ship to was also patched I would have just been wasting my time since this is a vulnerability in the Lemmy code and affects all instances until the admins apply a bandaid/the code is fixed.

[-] Railison@aussie.zone 0 points 2 years ago

It’s possible to move communities to other instances? How’s it work?

[-] AzuleBlade@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Not really, unfortunately. You'd have to create the community on a different instance, make a sticky post in the original community redirecting them to the new community, and then lock the community to prevent new posts. If you don't have a lot of content in the original community, or don't care about keeping it, you could delete the community after a week or two once people have subscribed to the new community to prevent confusion.

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