We need much better moderation tools. List of uploaded content, list of cached content, option to purge cached content.

IANAL, but you are still responsible for it if you host it on a cloud server, the difference is mainly that the authorities will complain first with your cloud host, which will likely take down the entire site, instead of with you directly who can swiftly remove the offending material if asked to do so.

It is FUD to say the police will SWAT you if someone reports CSAM on your server. But you should have an easy way for the responsible agencies to contact you for take-down requests.

For people hosting in the EU, this pdf document explains the legal situation a bit and also where and how to report CSAM, should you come across it.

Federation lovers find out all the work that goes behind curtains in any modern website that hosts user generated content.

To all the people who like to talk smack to Jitsi for requiring Google login, lemmy.world for banning piracy communities, or to even to YT for honouring takedown requests: go ahead and try to host just 100 people on your site.

I was contemplating setting up an instance dedicated to micromobility, active transport and livable cities… but this is a BIG turn off - I don’t think it’s worth spinning up a new instance until the new mod tools land, and the ability to disable caching federated thumbnails

There are some instances using ML to scan their pictrs folder IIRC, could be good if it could quarantine/delete/purge posts from Lemmy

:(

Ngl this might be it for my instance, not dealing with all this.

I had to clean a child porn image once because some bastard registered at an instance I’m moderating and posted an anime child porn image to another instance using the account he created here. And I found a total of 5 copies of that image in the server…

Egregious CSAM aside, none of these websites, including sites like Reddit, can be 100% confident that the people posting images are doing so of people who are over 18. For example, how could Lemmy or Reddit be confident that (insert gonewild poster here) is over the age of 18? As far as I’m aware the only checks that they do are to confirm that the poster is the person they say they are, not that they are of an appropriate age to post.

I get that the Lemmy devs are swamped with a lot of github issues, but how is this not one of, if not THE top priority for them right now? It’s mind blowing that instance admins don’t have the ability to disable the automatic caching of images from other remote instances.

If any shit show instance that ends up having CSAM can then cause an admin’s instance to inadvertently cache/host that same content, why the fuck would anyone be motivated to host an instance and deal with the liability?

You forgot to put “temporarily” in your headline.