From what I've read, the troll farms mostly operate funded by Russia but are physically located outside of Russia. For example, Macedonia had quite a few.
Russian on Russian violence is good for pretty much everyone except Russia. The only thing keeping Russia relevant is the threat of their military power. The weaker their military gets, the weaker Russia gets.
Remember, it's not all of Lemmy, it's just lemmy.ml. lemmy.ml is the one run by pro-china folks.
Well they mention Github artifacts in that message so it sounds like it's more like they may have obtained source code and that sort of non public stuff.
Usually what happens is that these sorts of blackmailers will leak small, verifiable pieces of data so people know they really got something. We don't see that here, so for now there's no reason to take them seriously yet.
This isn't ransomware. This is standard blackmail.
I think that would defeat a piece of the point of a decentralized system. In the current design, what will naturally happen is that if one instance has all the good content on a particular topic, most users will gravitate toward it anyway. We can read across federated instances anyway so I, a kbin user, have no problem reading something on lemmy like this.
Then let's say one day lemmyworld@lemmy.world gets taken over by people who want to post stuff I don't want to see. If I miss how it used to be here, I could go make lemmyworld@kbin.social and it would be fine.
Just post them quotes from things like the Bible, Abraham Lincoln, or Ronald Reagan that directly contradict what the Republican Party does now.
How long until conservatives try to cancel Marvel for spreading pro-mutant propaganda?
Elon "Free speech absolutist" Musk proves once again that he doesn't give a shit about free speech. He only cares about right-wing speech.
Harming animals is absolutely a sign of someone being deranged. Many eventually escalate to harming humans.
This drives me nuts. Why do his moronic cult followers keep giving him money? He's a "billionaire." LOL