This is an update on our previous post. You can see it on one of our federated instances, such as sh.itjust.works.

To summarize, after last week’s (10/07/2023) XSS attack, we wiped the site and decided to restore from a backup. Unfortunately all of our backups were corrupted and we had to recreate the instance on a fresh server and domain, otherwise Federation wouldn’t have worked (blame it on the Lemmy devs, not us lol).

Anyway this should hopefully be it. The instance is back online here at lemmy.basedcount.com and will stay here for the forseeable future. I can’t promise you I won’t wipe the database again but I’ll try my damn hardest not to.

While we were able to recover very little from our previous server, some data is still out there in our federated instances. For example, you can see a snapshot of the old !pcm@lemmy.basedcount.com on lemmy.fbxl.net. If you’d like for us to manually recover any of that content feel free to ask, it’s the least we can do. Know however that:

• images aren’t recoverable. We can only extract text (comments and posts).
• it’s an extremely lenghty process on our end. Do you really need it that badly?

To all of our previous users, we were able to recover a list of all the communities we used to be federated with. You can find it under lemmy.basedcount.com/communities. Just scroll through that list and hit follow to any community that interests you.

This should be everything, off to a new start. Thank you for sticking with us. Once again, we are terribly sorry for the data loss and the downtime.