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.

  • Rob T FireflyEnglish
    52•8 months ago

    Hopefully the devs will take the lesson from this incident and put some better tools together.

    • Whitehat HackerEnglish
      50•8 months ago

      There’s a Matrix Room for building mod tools here maybe we might want to bring up this issue there, just in case they aren’t already aware.

    • @WhiskyTangoFoxtrot
      -28•8 months ago

      Or we’ll finally accept that the core Lemmy devs aren’t capable of producing a functioning piece of software and fork it.

      • @[email protected]English
        34•8 months ago

        Its not easy to build a social media app, forking it won’t make it any easier to solve this particular problem. Joining forces to tackle an inevitable problem is the only solution. The Lemmy devs are more than willing to accept pull requests for software improvements.

      • @x1gma
        30•8 months ago

        And who’s gonna maintain the fork? Even less developers from a split community? You have absolutely no idea what you’re talking about.