Hey all, first of all I love you all for being here, this started as a small
side project and ballooned into a fun area to talk about pop music. Sadly, I
have to take the site down for a while while I rethink how I host. Currently,
this site is hosted on my own hardware, on my own network. Something that was
never an issue, I had some protections around it to keep it safe. I won’t go
into all details, but yesterday someone on another instance uploaded some
extremely vile child content that federated to several other instances. Ours was
not affected (luckily), but to be safe I purged everything from the last 24
hours.
Unfortuanately, this will be a growing trend, and Lemmy devs haven’t done much
to protect instance owners. If someone uploaded something like that to a
different instance that we subscribed to, technically I would also be hosting
that data. (Federation is cool, but it means we are all hosting it), which means
the feds could come and beat down my door for hosting it. In the short term, I’m
going to let this go out so others can see it, but I’m hoping it’ll be federated
for other users while I convert over. Step 1 is that I cannot host this locally,
I need to get it off my network and into the cloud. Steps 2, 3, 4, and on are
going to be adding protections so stuff can’t ever get in in the first place,
integrating tools, and probably working with the lemmy developers on ways to
prevent it in the first place. I don’t know how long we’ll be down, but
unfortunately someone else ruined it for all of us for a bit. I’ll do my best to
come back up soon while I shore up our ingest. -Your swiftie admin, Scrubbles
I keep hearing they are swamped and not many people, so if that’s really the case i hope this spurs knowledgeable people to join to help add these things.
Absolutely this. There are issues with deletes not federating properly too, right?
That’s a big part of the issue here too since even when .world cleans up the content it’s already been pushed out to every other instance and will now remain there until all THOSE admins also purge it.
We need much better moderation tools. List of uploaded content, list of cached content, option to purge cached content.
Hopefully a push towards forcing the lemmy devs hands on that end will come from this.
Seems like this kind of insight tool could be created by the community separately.
I keep hearing they are swamped and not many people, so if that’s really the case i hope this spurs knowledgeable people to join to help add these things.
Absolutely this. There are issues with deletes not federating properly too, right?
That’s a big part of the issue here too since even when .world cleans up the content it’s already been pushed out to every other instance and will now remain there until all THOSE admins also purge it.