Hello everyone. We recently defederated from the two instances below. In the interest of transparency, I am opening this discussion post as a place for our users to discuss any questions or concerns.

  • chinese.lol
  • lemmy.doesnotexist.club

Both instances were identified in a recent post (https://hackertalks.com/post/8713785) for harboring suspected vote manipulation accounts. The spoiler in that post names 49 suspicious accounts. A bit of database digging on our side confirmed that all of those accounts are being used solely for coordinated downvoting of a small number of Lemmy users. They are also only the tip of the iceberg; at least 92 other accounts on these two instances also match the same pattern of behavior.

We have reached out to the admins, and have not received a reply. Until we hear otherwise, these two instances are considered unmoderated and have been defederated.

That is all. Have a great Friday!

  • PolarKraken@sh.itjust.works
    2·
    17 days ago

    You do you, but I’ve learned not to be critical of that kind of scenario. It may not be the majority of folks who are kind of “terminally online” but there’s enough people out there that would really love a greater IRL social life and simply cannot have one, either due to disability or other reasons. For plenty of folks this is as real as it gets and my heart goes out to them. We don’t have to be mean to those folks to call out this one :)