10k users... and how many Moderators?

RE: https://www.searchengine.show/vladimir-putins-forkiverse So I had seen the #forkiverse hashtag a while back and didn't really pay attention, then didn't notice it disappear. I had zero clue what it was about, and although once upon a time I kept up with what the latest fedi meme was that time is long behind me now. And then it popped up again, and it turns out that the members of a podcast (or 2 podcasts? I don't care to clarify) decided it would be fun to set up a fediverse server. And now a few months later and having 10k users, they are shutting it down. It seems they were contacted by someone from iftas about an account that was a Russian dummy account that could invite other users and bypass their invite process...? They said this a couple of ways, but basically it either amounts to there being a massive security flaw in Mastodon, or they just sucked at checking invites and basic moderation. They didn't really seem to care about either, but I am tending to believe it is the…

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