>Dear users,
>earlier today, you might have received a notification email from our systems that contained abusive and offending content, and we apologize for the disturbing message.
>Please understand that no data from our platform was leaked. The emails were generated from our servers due to the notification settings of your user account, which is set to generate a notification whenever someone mentions your username in a conversation. The abuser had no access to your email address and was only using public information from our platform to abuse the notification feature.
>We have published a more detailed statement and explanations about the incident on our blog: https://blog.codeberg.org/we-stay-strong-against-hate-and-ha...
>Thank you for your understanding and stay safe. We are currently working to prevent similar incidents from happening again.
>Kind Regards >Your team from Codeberg e.V.
You should try to remove such content quietly. Creating publicity about attempts will only encourage trolls.
And by pulling a strong "omg we are attacked by the EVIL people", codeberg is feeding the troll. That guy is making big of an impact right now.
The only content in the email was the list of accounts they mentioned on that one, and 2 words.
The 2 words came off like some 5 year-old repeating bad words they'd heard, and giggling.
Not right-wing propaganda. More like a mentally impaired person. Or someone gloating over power they had to abuse the site with impunity, and not actually caring about the payload, so picking the most juvenile thing that came to mind.
Codeberg is good, and doesn't deserve this.
Hopefully, whomever is vandalizing Codeberg will realize they can be doing more positive things with their time and skill development. And get counseling help, if things are bothering them.
> [truth/truth] N***R BALLS (Issue #303)
> { A list of a bunch of users }
The email I received had no further context or content.
Also, because of the timing of the DDoS attack, they are likely be behind the DDoS attack as well, although that's not for sure. So we know they're far-right forces because of what they said in their threats to Codeberg users. The blog post mentions this but doesn't explicitly list the projects that were threatened so they don't continue to get spammed.
"@truth mentioned you: (100 users mentioned with @)"
Apart from jokes, why appealing to victimization when you have internet trolls bombing your system?
Trolls will always troll, and it's idiotic to blame far-whatever stuff always. If you have an online platform, you should at least keep your site safe from trolls and spammers.
They should stop doing victim-hood things, recognize their site was attacked by internet trolls and fix that thing. Everyone who have online services (including myself) knows this is a common issue.
Our site have attacks from radical left comments instead, and we don't do this "oh no, political extremism is too far, hate is never accepted", instead, we just delete the comments, try our best to keep them out from our platform and that's it.
Trolls will post extremism from left, right, anarchist, porn, ads, whatever in order to disrupt services
