Enhance

Thanks!

Correct!

Likely related to that lawsuit they're dealing with

I keep feeling that there's a disaster being brewed there, the only people paying attention to young boys seems to be the alt right, and there's a need for this which everybody seems to dismiss, every single one of the old style support structures for masculinity have been dismantled over decades, and while they were right to be dismantled all these boys still need the support to actually grow into decent people, and no one is giving it, and these crazies have noticed and are using it as breeding ground for soldiers for their cause. The decent people side must create something for them even if it's to avoid them falling into these dens of craziness.

So, essentially it's 4chan's Bump system?

Fully agree

This seems to be the issue, a code injection using custom emojis. Apparently Lemmy is letting some unsanitized data in, which means that Little Bobby Tables strikes again. Somebody was afraid the attackers had seized control of the whole Lemmy network but federation helps hinder the damage here, only individual instances are affected and they'd have to attack each one independently, a single server service would be fully affected in this case.

Beehaw has fully taken down the server as a preventive measure, i imagine they won't be the last ones doing this.

They've already been talking to the admins of those instances, they did it because there weren't better options like in Mastodon, remember that Lemmy is still Alpha software

Exactly what i was thinking: Possible? Yes, absolutely. A good idea? Probably not, it'd be a confusing mess of an app

The reason was not right, they should have been removed from power ages ago, but at least this collateral damage is a tiny bit of justice served at the end.

Here's a post from 2021 about this person giving some background. I recall even a change.org petition requesting them being banned.

Also, you might recall them for making the news recently after banning an artist from /r/art because they said a piece by them was made by AI, and when proven otherwise they said that it was obviously based on AI and that they should find a better style, which escalated to the point that the sub was temporarily closed

Seeing that person going down is a nice piece of justice in this shitstorm. It happened for the wrong reasons, admins should have removed this person long ago and didn't, but at least it's something.