I am wondering what kind of moderation tools would be needed.
On the top of my head, I'd say a trust-level system would be great, both for instances and users. New instances and users start out on a low trust level. Posts and commemts federated by them could be set to require approval or get deranked compared to other posts and comments. In time the trust-level increases and the content is shown as usual. If an incident occurs and content is getting reported, the trust level decreases again and eventually will have to be approved first again.

You can couple that with a reporting-trust-level. If a report is legitimate, future report will hold more weight, while illegitimate reports will make future reports hold less.

That is awful.

All I can is that I'm sorry this is happening to you guys. Are there specific ways others can help?

Sincerely appreciate your work to better this instance and the fediverse in it's entirely.

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The only word I can think of is "disgusting", and that is far from strong enough.

What kind of lowlife piece of shit do you need to be to post some shit like that? Some people will stoop to the most depraved levels just to fuck with strangers, it's horrifying

Thank you for your work.

That also means that they could post to other communities, so I guess moderators need to be vigilant

isn't this what 8cjan is for? Seriously what the fuck is wrong with people who think that CSAM is appropriate shit post material. The Internet really is a fucked up place. is there a way to setup something to automatically remove inappropriate posts similar to YouTube's system of automatically removing inappropriate contents?

I do think if the platform needs to grow more, we need more full time devs working on it and building it up to par. Good time to start funding campaign for Lemmy

Lemmy devs NEED to get mod tools out asap. Approved posts only, whitelisting users for communities, etc.

Lads, as a casual Lemmy user, just how much danger am I in of having my mind permanently incinerated by seeing images of children being sexually tortured? I've been using the net since the mid-90s and I have never seen a single piece of CSAM in that time, and I now realise that I've been insanely lucky in that regard. My mind is already host to all manner of unspeakable internet shit (looking at you, cartels), but I don't think I could endure seeing anything like the stuff those evil fucking degenerate nihilist cunts have on their hard drives. I would want to commit murder.

So, stay the hell off Lemmy or... ?

CSAM (Child Sexual Assault Material) posts

The federal governments of several nations should be in pursuit of this, and IP addresses and specific time logs shared.

I had no idea that this was going on. I expect that, like me, most people are horrified.

Relevant: Excellent congressional legal memo explaining the current US law on CSAM (as of 2022) Link

is there a list somewhere including detailed descriptions of the tools needed?

My field is QA but i'm a reasonably competent in a few scripting languages (mainly JS, but can also code in python and C#)

they would probably not be browser embedded, at least not at first, but i can dedicate a couple evenings a week to writing tools so long as there is a specification

Are they only posting to this one community? If so, why? Would closing this community not just make them post on a different one?

Thank you so much for the transparency and for all your (and the teams) work to keep things running for us <3