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.

    • 𝒍𝒆𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒏
      7•1 year ago

      I’m a dev but i’m in no way familiar with Rust (or more importantly, the code structure).

      Very early on I also had a look at the codebase for their join-lemmy.org site to see if I could contibute some UX changes to make it less text-heavy, but the framework they use for the UI is something I’m not familiar with either.

      Perhaps they’re both things to revisit when I have more spare time…

    • Whitehat HackerEnglish
      4•1 year ago

      Maybe you could start with making pull-requests to help and maybe also writting them an application on Matrix. I’m not being snarky just pointing out that it’s easier to help than you might think.

      • @[email protected]
        13•1 year ago

        I think taco butt plug meant that they aren’t a developer, like at all, so can’t help with coding or PRs or anything.

      • TacoButtPlugEnglish
        8•1 year ago

        I have no idea what a pull request or matrix is but I’ll start reading about them.

        • Whitehat HackerEnglish
          2•1 year ago

          Matrix is a secure chat protocol used by the Devs to message eachother.

          A pull request is a way of proposing and contributing code on git-based platforms like github, gitlab, and codeberg.

          • TacoButtPlugEnglish
            2•1 year ago

            Yea, thank you. I found the github list but yea… guess it’s a good time to learn!