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- dsm9000 2y agoNoticed some nasty spam in my inbox this morning, had some trouble getting in to codeberg's site initially, now see the above message.
- v3ss0n 2y agoHow that drama unfolded? Where did it started?
- p4bl0 2y agoOriginal title is: We stay strong against hate and hatred.
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- blumomo 2y agoWho can she a light on where these claims „far right forces“ originate? What were these spam emails saying?
- 0xC0ncord 2y agoI received an email this morning where someone created an issue in a public repo with a title containing a racial slur and mentioning a bunch of users, including me. This is just one example as far as I know.
- traverseda 2y agoGot stuck in my spam folder, but for posterity. I've censored the N word out of this, it was uncensored in the email. Also other people's names > [truth/truth] N***R BALLS (Issue #303) > { A list of a bunch of users } The email I received had no further context or content.
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- KomoD 2y agoThe emails were just "[truth/truth] (SLUR) BALLS (Issue #849)" "@truth mentioned you: (100 users mentioned with @)"
- theultdev 2y agoSeems like edge-lord spam mischaracterized as "far right"
- sundaeofshock 2y agoWhat’s the difference between?
- theultdev 2y agoI've heard plenty of "far-left" people use slurs, including n*****. Using a slur is not indicative of a political leaning, it's an indication of your edge-lord status.
- sundaeofshock 2y agoIf a person is acting like a right-wing asshole, I’m going to assume they are a right-wing asshole. If they don’t like that, they should change their behavior.
- tanseydavid 2y agoThis is circular reasoning -- a tautology.
- sundaeofshock 2y agoNo, it’s abductive reasoning. If it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck…
- wtfwhateven 2y agoNo it's not.
- theultdev 2y ago> If a person is acting like a right-wing asshole my point was people of all political leanings can act like this. it's not exclusive to "far-right" people. > If they don’t like that, they should change their behavior. they don't care. that's why they're trolling
- sieabahlpark 2y agoThey want to feel validated with identity politics first and foremost. Creating additional distance from the bad words so people who care about identity politics are comforted.
- nixah 2y agoThese forces made spam accounts that spammed threats/insults in issue trackers and pull requests on projects that collect facts and resources against hate and discrimination and advocate for human rights, trans rights, etc on Codeberg. Some of the same spam accounts were behind the spam notification emails. Also, because of the timing of the DDoS attack, they are likely be behind the DDoS attack as well, although that's not for sure. So we know they're far-right forces because of what they said in their threats to Codeberg users. The blog post mentions this but doesn't explicitly list the projects that were threatened so they don't continue to get spammed.
- neilv 2y agoI got a couple of these mention notification emails this morning. The only content in the email was the list of accounts they mentioned on that one, and 2 words. The 2 words came off like some 5 year-old repeating bad words they'd heard, and giggling. Not right-wing propaganda. More like a mentally impaired person. Or someone gloating over power they had to abuse the site with impunity, and not actually caring about the payload, so picking the most juvenile thing that came to mind. Codeberg is good, and doesn't deserve this. Hopefully, whomever is vandalizing Codeberg will realize they can be doing more positive things with their time and skill development. And get counseling help, if things are bothering them.
- KomoD 2y agoDoes codeberg just not have proper limits? Why would you let someone mention 100 users in a single message and create like 800+ issues with one account in a very short time span
- hipsterstal1n 2y agoI got the spam message with racist words and then this email: >Dear users, >earlier today, you might have received a notification email from our systems that contained abusive and offending content, and we apologize for the disturbing message. >Please understand that no data from our platform was leaked. The emails were generated from our servers due to the notification settings of your user account, which is set to generate a notification whenever someone mentions your username in a conversation. The abuser had no access to your email address and was only using public information from our platform to abuse the notification feature. >We have published a more detailed statement and explanations about the incident on our blog: https://blog.codeberg.org/we-stay-strong-against-hate-and-hatred.html https://blog.codeberg.org/we-stay-strong-against-hate-and-ha... >Thank you for your understanding and stay safe. We are currently working to prevent similar incidents from happening again. >Kind Regards >Your team from Codeberg e.V.
- throwaway46567 2y agoRespectfully, this isn't a "far-right" attack but a plain trolling attempt because reacting like this shows you're an easy target. You should try to remove such content quietly. Creating publicity about attempts will only encourage trolls.
- notthemessiah 2y agoRespectfully, if you really believed this, you wouldn't be hiding behind a throwaway account.
- fatata123 2y agoWhat are you even trying to say with that? The troll got what they wanted, attention.
- blueflow 2y agoI believe it, too, and i am not hiding. Every other teenager who is testing out how they can leave their "imprint" on the world will do offensive things, intentionally. And by pulling a strong "omg we are attacked by the EVIL people", codeberg is feeding the troll. That guy is making big of an impact right now.
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- waltercool 2y ago-berg Apart from jokes, why appealing to victimization when you have internet trolls bombing your system? Trolls will always troll, and it's idiotic to blame far-whatever stuff always. If you have an online platform, you should at least keep your site safe from trolls and spammers. They should stop doing victim-hood things, recognize their site was attacked by internet trolls and fix that thing. Everyone who have online services (including myself) knows this is a common issue. Our site have attacks from radical left comments instead, and we don't do this "oh no, political extremism is too far, hate is never accepted", instead, we just delete the comments, try our best to keep them out from our platform and that's it. Trolls will post extremism from left, right, anarchist, porn, ads, whatever in order to disrupt services