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MaximilianKohler OP ,

That seems an argument not to start your communities on lemmy.world.

Lemmy.world was the main one targeted, but they all use the same software and have the same vulnerabilities.

you could just start a community on a friendly instance

The problem is knowing how long that instance will be friendly to you. Will they start blocking other instances you want to interact with? Will other instances start blocking them? And so on…

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