I would be cautious about viewing any Lemmy.world communities right now, and the Beehaw admins should make sure their credentials are locked down in case they get targeted next.

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    Just because Beehaw is defederated from this instance, that does not mean that visiting a recently compromised server will not cause your credentials to be compromised.

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      Read the post again. It was specifically mentioning viewing lemmy.world communities, which is not possible through beehaw.org due to defederation. All you would see is the content before defederation.

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      No user data like credentials gets transfered. Everything between instances is done with bot like helpers that do the data transfers.

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        That’s the problem, they don’t. If you have them stored anywhere on the device you view the communities with, your credentials are not safe.

        Edit: this was for someone else.

        Anything can be transferred without your knowledge. Do not access hacked servers while expecting privacy.

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          That would require your device to get hacked, not just the server.

          As for privacy… there is really little of that on Lemmy or the fediverse as a whole.

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      Why would a “foreign” instance need to know my credentials from my local instance just to allow me to browse that foreign instance?