Is there anything I can do, or is that account lost forever now? Resetting the password doesn’t work (natch). Not a huge deal, but it’s upsetting because I was modding a community from that account. Any tips/contacts would be appreciated. Cheers.
*** update: as per commenters suggesting, tried resetting password for that account once again, and I was successfully able to log in, go to my settings, then remove 2FA, and all seems good now
I did the same thing on a different Lemmy instance, probably for the same reason. I just created a pull request to fix the broken instructions - pull 88.
Nothing is lost, but I’m quite sure that the instance admin will need to disable 2FA in your account for you to regain access, however I suspect that the lemmy.world admin is going to be busy for a while due to the recent exploit.