The CSAM spamming happened again, and unfortunately a local user had to witness it and report it.
I myself did not see it, but from what I gather it was basically an innocent looking tiktok video at first glance that would transition into CSAM. Utterly vile.
The content is being reported and admins across lemmy are handling it. I am hopeful this is an isolated incident but what the fuck man. What do we do from here?
I’m honestly extremely frustrated. Which sucks cause thats the intention of these trolls.
The video that I saw today was probably not actual CSAM, although it was meant to look like it. There’s no accounting for how some people get their jollies.
On the one hand, defederating from open-registration instances is prudent. TBH, as an admin, it’s probably what I’d do out of an abundance of caution.
On the other hand, it feels like letting the bastards win. And that rubs my fur backwards.
Ikr! It’s just… ugh.
What common instances are open registration?
As of right now the really only instance with open registration is sh.itjust.works. All others have closed their registration to application only in response to what has happened.
Then I’d be in favor for defederation. sh.itjust.works doesn’t bring enough value to me to justify the risk and mental damage to mods.
This is a really hard choice :/
If it happens again I’ll defed but it seems things will improve pretty rapidly since significant changes to lemmy are coming soon
what are the big changes?
Remote image caching will be able to be disabled as well as work on more granular federation operations and front end mod tooling
Just wait until ~next patch and disable image uploads. Eventually, people will catch on that it’s too dangerous to leave image uploads enabled
There’s a lot of FUD (fear, uncertainty & doubt) being spread on lemmy about this entire thing that’s not helping anyone and it’s becoming extremely annoying. The way lemmy currently handles image uploads leaves a lot of room to be desired, but allowing image uploads (when safety rails are in place) isnt as dangerous as people are making it out to be.
I’m a bit more than sick of people fearmonger that the FBI is going to raid your instance over content you had no idea about. If you live in the US and host in the US there are safe harbor protections and so long as you are doing your due diligence, reporting, etc, you’ll be fine. Almost all of the images being posted that are legally problematic are from external image hosts and it’s just a major issue due to the fact that lemmy caches ALL images (including external images) right now.
Thanks for defining fud, it also rhymes with mud. Yeah for sure, if you want to manage a team to handle takedown requests and reply to legal threats from corporations, then go ahead and keep image uploading on
Oh the devs are already making a feature to disable this? Shit well I guess they fell for the fud
