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?

  • Rimu
    130·
    6 months ago

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

    • n7gifmdnOPEnglish
      60·
      6 months ago

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

  • kbal
    100·
    6 months ago6 months ago

    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?

    • n7gifmdnOPEnglish
      30·
      6 months ago

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

    • roguetrick
      10·
      6 months ago6 months ago

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

    • originalucifer
      22·
      6 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

      • n7gifmdnOPEnglish
        150·
        6 months ago

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

        • Hegar
          50·
          6 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.

      • lemmyreaderEnglish
        10·
        6 months ago

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

  • rdyoung
    70·
    6 months ago6 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.

  • Aurix
    30·
    6 months ago

    Could you explain what this community was about?