I see a very small minority of people using Kbin, but I don’t understand why.

Is this just a coincidence and did some people choose Kbin over Lemmy or is there a good reason to use Kbin?

  • Freeman@lemmy.pub
    4·
    1 year ago

    Customizations brought vulns on Lemmy with the custom emojis introducing XSS vulns and a few takeovers in the recent weeks.

    • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de
      3·
      1 year ago

      but that’s not the fault of the UI, that’s the fault of the server and/or operator for allowing something like that to be even theoretically possible in the first place.

      This is why you place UIs on separate domains from the servers, and always treat user input like it’s radioactive AND toxic.

      • Freeman@lemmy.pub
        8·
        1 year ago

        The custom emoji’s was a developed feature of Lemmy pushed out in their UI code. Even the project mainters instance was affected. Its why 0.18.2 was released.

        https://join-lemmy.org/news/2023-07-11_-_Lemmy_Release_v0.18.2

        Thats not on server/infra operators. It was a vuln in the core UI code. Some operators DID patch it themselves (i think Beehaw is one), others were less affected (ie: My instance is closed and i dont use custom emjis anyhow), but those are features introduced by the maintainers and some of the bigger instances would get requests for them anyhow. So it was a problem.