Hello everyone,

We unfortunately have to close the !lemmyshitpost community for the time being. We have been fighting the CSAM (Child Sexual Assault Material) posts all day but there is nothing we can do because they will just post from another instance since we changed our registration policy.

We keep working on a solution, we have a few things in the works but that won’t help us now.

Thank you for your understanding and apologies to our users, moderators and admins of other instances who had to deal with this.

Edit: @[email protected] the moderator of the affected community made a post apologizing for what happened. But this could not be stopped even with 10 moderators. And if it wasn’t his community it would have been another one. And it is clear this could happen on any instance.

But we will not give up. We are lucky to have a very dedicated team and we can hopefully make an announcement about what’s next very soon.

Edit 2: removed that bit about the moderator tools. That came out a bit harsher than how we meant it. It’s been a long day and having to deal with this kind of stuff got some of us a bit salty to say the least. Remember we also had to deal with people posting scat not too long ago so this isn’t the first time we felt helpless. Anyway, I hope we can announce something more positive soon.

      • Whitehat Hacker
        2•1 year ago

        There was an Instance (check bottom of instances page, it’s the most recent one in blocked as of writing this) that had rules allowing loli (drawn CSAM) which was defederated very recently. I originally made a post about it on support but deleted it because there was a lot of backlash (backlash against defederating a loli CSAM instance 😒) so I just messaged about it privately, not just to lw admins but to many others as well across lemmy.

        • Ab_intra
          2•1 year ago

          There was a backlash against your post for defederating a instance that allows loli? Wtf.

          • Whitehat HackerEnglish
            2•1 year ago

            Indeed there was. I don’t understand why.

    • Agamemnon
      -1•1 year ago

      Neither namedropping nor virtue signalling nor spreading misinformation is okay.

      • Whitehat HackerEnglish
        1•1 year ago

        What misinformation, are you trying to imply that the known instance wasn’t defederated for hosting or allowing the hosting of illegal content, do you think they weren’t at all or do you think loli is acceptable and not CSAM, because FYI opinions may vary but the law is clear CSAM even fictional is illegal to produce, host, or consume.