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.

  • @Poppa_Mo
    142•1 year ago

    This is flat out disgusting. Extremely questionable someone having an arsenal of this crap to spread to begin with. I hope they catch charges.

    • Queen HawlSeraEnglish
      10•1 year ago

      See that’s the part of this that bothers me most… Why do they have so much of it? Why do they feel comfortable letting others know they have so much of it? Why are they posting it on an open forum?

      The worst part is, there is not a single god damn answer to ANY of those that wouldn’t keep a sane person up at night… shudder

      • @[email protected]
        2•1 year ago

        I’m sure it’s not hard to find on the dark web. Child porn is one of those horrible things that is probably a lot more widespread than anyone wants to know.

        I don’t really get why they are doing this though.

        • Queen HawlSeraEnglish
          1•1 year ago

          I hate to get conspiratorial, but it’s possible Reddit paid some people to do this to snuff out the competition.

          Isn’t Spez a pedophile?

      • PiecemakersEnglish
        4•1 year ago

        You must realize the logical fallacy in that statement, right?