I really wish I knew more about this stuff, but every time I switch from Local to Subscribed Malwarebytes gives me a popup warning me that lemmy.world is compromised and blocked (even though I’m still seeing posts from communities there) but that’s all it’s telling me. Should I be avoiding that instance?

  • Dave@lemmy.nzM
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    1 year ago

    It’s probably out of date.

    Lemmy.world had an administrator account compromised. It was traced to a security issue in the Lemmy software and was fixed pretty quickly.

    This all happened maybe a week or two ago (edit: it was a month ago. There’s a post here)? Reasonably recent, so they probably haven’t removed the warning yet.

    • witless@lemmy.nzOPEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Thanks, I wasn’t sure where to look for more info, since MWB wasn’t very forthcoming. I was sure that if there was something dodgy happening there’d be outrage somewhere about it but everyone seems pretty normal.