I was gonna go with a meme like “shit, they’re onto us!”… except who are we kidding, cats literally would not care.

So instead I’ll go with this:

TIL that I am a witch.

J/k… I’ve known that for a long time. 😹

The linked post explains:

A Lemmy.World user informed us about an instance we are federated with that was hosting very illegal content a while back. This was a result of an attack more than a year ago, and said content federated to many other instances, which made local copies of the material. Unfortunately, when this material was taken down at the source, that action did not federate to all linked instances, meaning that there are still some instances showing this material.

Once we were made aware of this, we realized that this was likely not the only occurrence, so we started looking for other instances where this content may also still exist. We have identified more than 50 affected instances and already reached out to many of them to inform them about this content to have it taken down.

It seems that it is quite difficult for instance admins to do things like permanently remove posts locally which have already been removed by a mod somewhere else. Ironically, by intentionally making it difficult to access, its inaccessibility afterwards makes it difficult to… uh… access, e.g. to delete it, very much a design flaw.

Absolutely.

Google used to be better as well. And Reddit. And… well, enshittification affects everything, not just tech, but printers and food containing micro plastics and everything else we can buy.:-(

Are you sure that you don’t already know it by heart?

I thought for sure you must have misread it, but yeah it’s two points UP.

The metrics here are presumably so narrow and incomplete for 2025 as to be absolute misinformation. Relevant quote:

According to the U.S. Press Freedom Tracker, there were 49 journalist arrests in 2024 compared to only 15 in 2023.

And zero recorded for 2025 so far, according to that page.

So… ‘tangential’ then? :-P

So… a Lemming then? 😳😛

Don’t do it! Then it would always remind you of work when you see it.

They are not - he X/cancelled it.:-P

Baaaaphomet!?

Don’t confuse not knowing with not caring.

They can choose not to.

On the inside, where it counts🤗🫠

Are they really plastic trash bags? 😭

The Mbin software federates with both Lemmy and Mastodon at once. The Interstellar app works for it (+ also PieFed, though the latter does not currently federate with Mastodon, only Lemmy and itself). The largest Mbin instance iirc is fedia.io. By default you see the “Threads” content shared with Lemmy, but clicking the top left icon and then choosing “Microblog” will show content from Mastodon.

The terminology can be quite confusing, especially on Mbin compared to Lemmy - e.g. Lemmy-style “Communities” on Mbin are called “Magazines”. The sharing between Lemmy, Mbin Threads/Magazines, and PieFed is called the “Threadiverse”, while the sharing between Mastodon and Mbin Microblog/People does not have a unique name iirc (though I don’t use Mbin or any Mastodon or Microblogging so apologies if I am incorrect here), so it just uses the wider name “Fediverse”, which also includes the Threadiverse inside of it as well. A wiki is in progress, looking for contributors. That community !fediverse@piefed.social has a ton of great reading material, as too does !Fediverse@lemmy.world.

This is very surprising to me - is it due to lack of education about the subject, I wonder? (Or perhaps it is I who have a skewed perspective?)

They would not sell (nor profit) something that people refuse to buy.

We are the ones doing this.