A lot of people who know more about what they’re talking about have addressed it, there’s an admin post on blahaj about it, and the first I ever saw was the dbzero post that seems to have triggered the (much deserved) avalanche
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sem@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 months agoHow did it get found out
VoteNixon2016@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
Anivia@feddit.org 2 months ago
People looked at the source code. Presumably because of you tried to post something that’s blocked you just got an indescriptive error message, and they were trying to fix the “error” themselves
4am@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
lol db0 was running it on his own instance and when he updated to the version with the secret blocklist his entire feed was blank, because his instance (dbzer0) was on the blocklist
Dude made a “secret” blocklist that told on itself instantly
Not the sharpest lightbulb, is he? 🤣