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Lemmyshitpost community closed until further notice - Lemmy.world
lemmy.worldHello 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]
[https://lemmy.world/u/Striker] 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. The only thing that could have
prevented this is better moderation tools. And while a lot of the instance
admins have been asking for this, it doesn’t seem to be on the developers
roadmap for the time being. There are just two full-time developers on this
project and they seem to have other priorities. No offense to them but it
doesn’t inspire much faith for the future of Lemmy. 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.
They also shut down registration
Whoever is spamming CP deserves the woodchipper
Why?
Because Lemmy is free and provided as is, nobody is obligated to do shit.
It would have been different if they simply pointed this out, but they specifically aimed this at the two people doing a ton of work for free making it available for everyone. That’s simply rude and ungrateful, in my opinion.
Nah man, if you’re building an online platform made to share content there’s no excuse to lack at least basic moderation capabilities especially when it comes to this type of illegal and seriously fucked up content. It isn’t the early 00s, we know how important this shit is by now. If mod tools don’t make their way to the top of the dev’s backlog after this I don’t think I’m staying on Lemmy.
As bad as it sounds, I was thinking about it too. The risk of something similar happening again is just too high to be ignored.
What I could imagine is a temporary hold on federation (to prevent the propagation of CSAM content), and instances organizing in small clusters of trust, waiting for sufficient tools, be it mod tools, CSAM scanning or whatever, so that there can be federation again.
It would totally suck for self hosting, but yeah I don’t see a way around it at this point. Maybe allow federation on a selective basis?
Yes, that’s what I meant with small clusters based on trust