we currently have a Referrer-Policy that doesn't share the referrer with third party sites, so your observation is correct.
it's a mechanism to reduce potential for user tracking.
this is similar to the default behavior seen on mastodon: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/33214
with the content i've seen it gave me more of an impression of being captures of a live stream, but that's just guessing
we looked into it, we currently believe that to be a copycat not related to the other pms.
the lemmy.world account involved in that was most certainly compromised from an unrelated data breach and all connections originated from IPs linked to an anonymization service, so there's also not much to follow up on.
we will reconsider this if it happens again.
I don't know if others have, I only know that we (Lemmy.World, Fedihosting Foundation) have not reported it to the police.
I don't have high hopes that the police would be able to do anything about this. For the harassment against the person shown in the images, that would likely have to be reported by them directly for the police to take that up.
For random online spam, as in harassment of fediverse users receiving the PMs, that seems like it would be an extremely low priority for police. It's also likely fairly difficult to impossible to follow up on, considering that the person sending the PMs most likely used a VPN to access these accounts.
to be honest, this should have been done way earlier.
partial breakage, the stuff that people on other instances have already been experiencing for a while.
iirc there are still some additional issues with sync arising with the update, but it won't be entirely broken.
the domain you posted a link to was in our automod blacklist due to previously being used by spam bots.
upon review it appears that this domain serves user generated content by different users that can be determined in the URL path. in those cases we typically only ban those users rather than the entire site if it's not overly spammy.
we also usually review automod actions quickly, although in this specific case we must have missed this, as we had a lot of other true spam removals in the last days.
you have been unbanned from LW and your post has been restored.
not at all. nobody can revert edits, only the creator can edit it again.
moderators can restore removed (mod action) posts and comments, but not deleted (creator action) posts and comments.
this comment section is not a place to rant about other instances
calling other people pedophiles is not trolling.
such allegations can be life-ruining and should not be done lightly.
it was a significant part of the brand of a spam/advertisement campaign several months ago
i think the graph might not be fully accurate for the current hour? looking at it now it doesn't show that significant of a spike anymore. i don't see anything in our logs about federation issues from LW to p.d in the last 15 days.