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A few days ago I noticed and made a post about the fact that TruthSocial was still linking to the Mastodon code base... https://poal.co/s/SocialMedia/504350

Today I noticed that TruthSocial removed the link https://truthsocial.com/open-source and I went to comment on the post but I found the entire sub is gone... and so are dozens of other subs. All deleted by a now deleted user. So some one table flipped, disabled all of the subs they owned, and then deleted their account.

https://poal.co/sitelog

This is an eye opening event for me... This seems like a unintended backdoor to censorship. I know we have malicious actors that visit Poal and I would not be surprised if some sub owners are sleeper agents. Are we OK with subs being able to just disappear with no over site?

A few days ago I noticed and made a post about the fact that TruthSocial was still linking to the Mastodon code base... https://poal.co/s/SocialMedia/504350 Today I noticed that TruthSocial removed the link https://truthsocial.com/open-source and I went to comment on the post but I found the entire /s/SocialMedia sub is gone... and so are dozens of other subs. All deleted by a now deleted user. So some one table flipped, disabled all of the subs they owned, and then deleted their account. https://poal.co/sitelog This is an eye opening event for me... This seems like a unintended backdoor to censorship. I know we have malicious actors that visit Poal and I would not be surprised if some sub owners are sleeper agents. Are we OK with subs being able to just disappear with no over site?

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[–] • 0 pt

Gotta assume it's all malicious / intended at this point. The evil ones will find every loophole to exploit and hold it for the right time.

[–] • 3 pts

The person hadn't posted much of anything for a long time. I would guess it's more along the lines of what I do every year - clean up old accounts.

[–] • 1 pt

But when you own the subs? To me it plays into more of a subvert and wait to strike.

[–] • 3 pts (edited )

I think when you delete your account, the subs under your control go dark as well. If any of the subs were controversial, I can see it being malicious, but most of them were so low traffic no one knew they existed.