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Teacup.social siezed by German Officials? (lemmy.ca)
submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by n7gifmdn@lemmy.ca to c/fediverse@lemmy.ml
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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. http://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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[–] poVoq@slrpnk.net 15 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] rimu@piefed.social 13 points 10 months ago

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

[–] debounced@kbin.run 12 points 10 months ago (1 children)

@MrKaplan@lemmy.world 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 6 points 10 months ago

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

[–] kbal@fedia.io 10 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (4 children)

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?

[–] n7gifmdn@lemmy.ca 3 points 10 months ago

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

[–] roguetrick@kbin.social 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

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

[–] RobotToaster@mander.xyz 0 points 10 months ago

Germany never saw a dystopia it didn't love

[–] originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com 0 points 10 months ago

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

[–] lemmyreader@lemmy.ml 9 points 10 months ago (2 children)

http://teacup.social/ loads for me.

[–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 11 points 10 months ago (2 children)

We're all on a list now.

[–] n7gifmdn@lemmy.ca 15 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] Hegar@kbin.social 5 points 10 months ago

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 1 points 10 months ago

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

[–] n7gifmdn@lemmy.ca 1 points 10 months ago

same thing I saw

[–] rdyoung@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

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.

[–] Danterious@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It isn't loading for me.

[–] Aurix@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

Could you explain what this community was about?