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!
haha, thanks, friend!!
Careful though, saying that you even kinda like Universal Monk on Lemmy these days puts ya at risk of “guilt by association.” lol They’ll probably just say you’re an alt of me and that I’m talking to myself, so…
I see soooo many people accuse of being an alt of me. Someone made a list of names and said, some variation of, “Here’s a list of all Universal Monk’s alts so you can pre-emptively block:…” And none of them were me. lol
As for selling you on PieFed. Hmm, I don’t really have the knowledge base to do that. I do like it though. It uses much less resources/memory. Community is growing. And it’s a good backup for when/if Lemmy fails. It does the same thing faster and quicker.
I personally don’t catch as much hate there, and the admins seem to be much more “as long as you aren’t breaking any laws, you do you” in attitude.
Way more options for organizing your the communities you follow, what you wanna see when you log on, etc.
I think if you do a quick search for “piefed vs Lemmy,” you’ll get much better feedback about both platforms than I can give you.