Teacup.social siezed by German Officials?
from n7gifmdn@lemmy.ca to fediverse@lemmy.ml on 10 Apr 2024 16:33
https://lemmy.ca/post/19127893

I went to login to my mbin (previously kbin) account today for the first time in a few weeks, and I was greeted with an image that indicates the assets of teacup.social had been seized. teacup.social

Doesn’t make any sense to me, teacup.social had all the normal stuff blocked, like lemmynsfw.com.

Is this legitimate or did someone else steal the server and this is their version of a joke?

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Danterious@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 10 Apr 2024 16:39 next collapse

It isn’t loading for me.

[deleted] on 10 Apr 2024 16:51 collapse

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n7gifmdn@lemmy.ca on 10 Apr 2024 17:31 collapse

Thanks! I corrected the link the description

rdyoung@lemmy.world on 10 Apr 2024 16:37 next collapse

It’s not loading for me at all.

Edit approximately an hour later: Now it’s loading for me. Maybe a dns issue or something with the take down/over.

lemmyreader@lemmy.ml on 10 Apr 2024 16:48 next collapse

teacup.social loads for me.

<img alt="" src="https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/4d03b58d-d6ea-4578-aa4a-2c961a848778.png">

Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world on 10 Apr 2024 17:15 next collapse

We’re all on a list now.

n7gifmdn@lemmy.ca on 10 Apr 2024 17:21 next collapse

If you aren’t already on a list, you are doing it wrong ;-)

Hegar@kbin.social on 10 Apr 2024 17:48 collapse

I love this comment so much, but it feels hypocritical for a supporter of Canadian cricket to be lecturing people about doing it wrong.

lemmyreader@lemmy.ml on 10 Apr 2024 17:46 collapse

Yikes! Where’s the unsubscribe button ? :-)

n7gifmdn@lemmy.ca on 10 Apr 2024 17:20 collapse

same thing I saw

kbal@fedia.io on 10 Apr 2024 17:30 next collapse

Apparently they do a whole lot of blocking and deleting of websites in response to complaints in Germany. I don't know if teacup.social was among them but with that much stuff getting nuked every day there are bound to be a few false positives. Something to consider before you host anything at Hetzner, perhaps.

Edit: On further searching the web, it seems that ordinary web censorship doesn't typically involve big scary-looking notices from the BKA. Maybe they happened to somehow or other share an IP address (or a server) with these guys?

originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com on 10 Apr 2024 17:34 next collapse

people give me shit for running my instance at amazon, but i dont hear a lot of this nonsense from that corner...

ya get what ya pay for i s'pose

n7gifmdn@lemmy.ca on 10 Apr 2024 17:45 next collapse

that’s interesting. Certainly there would have to be false positives. That’s gotta be hella difficult reputations of smaller websites.

RobotToaster@mander.xyz on 10 Apr 2024 17:58 next collapse

Germany never saw a dystopia it didn’t love

roguetrick@kbin.social on 10 Apr 2024 19:19 collapse

Dead drop darknet deliveries. That's hot shit. Of course that was back in 2022.

Aurix@lemmy.world on 10 Apr 2024 18:51 next collapse

Could you explain what this community was about?

debounced@kbin.run on 10 Apr 2024 20:05 next collapse

@MrKaplan pointed out that after reviewing the html source there's a link to this https://github.com/Linuzifer/domain_seizure.... looks like a joke or a hack.

n7gifmdn@lemmy.ca on 10 Apr 2024 21:32 collapse

Not sure why you’d want to do that, but it certainly makes more sense.

poVoq@slrpnk.net on 10 Apr 2024 20:05 next collapse

This is very likely fake somehow. The source-code of the banner links to: github.com/Linuzifer/domain_seizure

[deleted] on 11 Apr 2024 13:18 collapse

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rimu@piefed.social on 10 Apr 2024 22:44 collapse

An April fool's joke that went on too long, probably.