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.

  • @[email protected]
    2•9 months ago

    Cool, name them and give me links then. I could not find such on the internet. There is software that tries to detect this, but even youtube’s algorithm is incorrectly flagging fully clothed 30 year old women as children.

    have you ever talked to janitors and mods on 4chan? Good luck getting any info out of them.

    • 𝕯𝖎𝖕𝖘𝖍𝖎𝖙
      -3•9 months ago

      Do you realize that 4chan isn’t the full internet? That these programs that you already know of can exist outside of 4chan? I’m asking you - the person who knows of these apps - to provide links to back up your claims.

      • @[email protected]
        4•9 months ago

        I’m not the other person you responded to and I never claimed to have an apps or links.

        I’m just telling you how this works on 4chan. I’m aware that’s not the entire internet obviously - your sarcasm needs work considering we are both here on Lemmy, ie, not 4chan.

        If anyone on there is using these programs/apps/whatever, they’re not just gonna tell other people about them.

        And as far as I know, I haven’t been on 4chan in like 3 years not but they region ban for CSAM.

        • 𝕯𝖎𝖕𝖘𝖍𝖎𝖙
          -1•9 months ago

          I don’t really keep track of who I’m responding to. I just respond to comments. Sorry if I got mixed up here.

          My comments still stand, though the snark isn’t directed towards you specifically.

          I just want people to understand that there isn’t a solution that we all think exists in other places and not here. The solution is largely people. People who get PTSD from viewing and moderating these images. It’s not a good solution but it’s the best solution we have so far.

          The other truth of the matter is if the Internet itself were to hypothetically shut down, this content will just be distributed via other means. The one nice thing about the internet is that lots of stuff is tracable back to the person who posted the infringing material.

          • @[email protected]
            7•9 months ago

            I just want people to understand that there isn’t a solution that we all think exists in other places and not here

            I agree with you on this. I agree with a lot of things you’re saying.

            part of responding means you know who you are talking to. I know it can be easy to forget someone is behind the screen here but there are in fact other human beings responding to you.

            Just try to be more considerate, if anything.