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Don't know if this will be relevant at all, but I'm almost hoping this will force Lemmy devs to abandon the obscure markdown crate they use for pulldown-cmark.

Using an obscure markdown implementation just because it supports spoiler tags always sounded like a silly decision to me!

Wtf? What even is happening?

I'm seeing zero comments come out of Lemmy.world in the past 15 minutes, app users shouldn't have been redirected... and users commenting from other servers should be going to communities homed there. I wonder if they shut off federation. I normally see over 10 comments a minute: https://lemmyadmin.bulletintree.com/query/comments_ap_id_host_prev?output=table&timeperiod=15

It was cleaned up on the home page, but now back to being defaced as of this comment time.

Another user on the site confirmed this:

Looked like the admin u/MichelleG over there got hacked. That account posted a couple stickied posts and then all the css and links started changing on the site.

Well shit, just set up shop here. Had made a back up account on vlemmy the other day and that's down too. What's going on?

The admins now appears to have taken down the backend in an effort to stop the defacing.

Just clicked into Lenny.world and saw “site has been seized by Reddit for copyright infringement “

Compromised in what way? Can you post proof?

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Yikes, hope they can find and disclose whatever they used to compromise an admin account.

It appears that the deface attack is back in full swing (racial slurs and all the redirects)