Silver lining: Lemmy.World hacked so I found an instance I like more!
The Lemmy.world hack made a good opportunity to explore other instances out there. Found one based in my area. Back in action!
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The Lemmy.world hack made a good opportunity to explore other instances out there. Found one based in my area. Back in action!
Afaik, unless lemmy.ml had patched the vulnerability like the lemmy.world folks, the instance is susceptible to the vulnerability.
I almost made the rash, uninformed decision to close up shop on lemmy.world and move my community to another instance. Luckily I did some further reading, and yeah, unless whatever other instance I jumped ship to was also patched I would have just been wasting my time since this is a vulnerability in the Lemmy code and affects all instances until the admins apply a bandaid/the code is fixed.
It’s possible to move communities to other instances? How’s it work?
Not really, unfortunately. You'd have to create the community on a different instance, make a sticky post in the current community redirecting them to the new community, and then lock the community to prevent new posts. If you don't have a lot of content in the original community, or don't care about keeping it, you could delete the community after a week or two once people have subscribed to the new community to prevent confusion.
It isn't possible just yet, although there are issues on Lemmy's github for it.