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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: @Striker@lemmy.world 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.

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[–] recapitated@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I understand this is a major growing problem in many parts of the tech industry right now.

Solving the problem will make us strong... I just wish it was over something like malware. Something urgent enough to make us work, but not awful enough... You know.

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[–] carroarmato0@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

As someone who was a moderator on a nothorious website, it can at times feel like shoveling water out of a boat while it's still leaking. Efficient and robust tooling makes a very big difference, but it's not waterproof. Mods cannot be appreciated enough.

[–] uis@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Is there a way to see all reports made by myself and see their statuses?

[–] LEDZeppelin@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Thank you. I love fediverse.

[–] Pratai@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago

Pedophiles are fighting with the only weapon they have that can fuck up someone’s life-

The irony.

[–] uhmbah@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago

Thank you. Thank you. Thank you!

[–] kratoz29@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

How come that I never encountered any kind of this content and browse constantly Lemmy, is this one of the perks of surfing through subscribed feed?

I unsubscribed from meme communities very early on because they were spamming such a feed.

Also a situation where avoiding "New" helps, since no one is up-voting that BS.

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[–] Darth_vader__@discuss.online 3 points 1 year ago (9 children)

what if we use deep learning based automoderators to instantly nuke these posts as they appear? For privacy and efficiency let's make the model open source and community maintained.. maybe even start a seperate donation for maintaining this, and maybe even make it a public API!

[–] SamboT@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

For sure let us know when it's done

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[–] Trekman10@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

Was wondering why I couldn't reply to a comment from earlier today when I was sure I hadn't broken any rule to get banned. Hope it's back soon, but more importantly that you can stop all the damn CP.

[–] Clbull@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

To me this is a flaw of federation in general and I really think the solution should be to defederate yourselves from other instances until further notice.

With how Lemmy (and the fediverse in general) is currently set up, what's stopping malicious actors from just creating another Lemmy instance of their own then spamming the shit out of another Lemmy World community until you're forced to close it.

I mean, you have a point, of course, but the aim of these digital terrorists is precisely to take Lemmy down. These attacks are happening across many different instances and the long-term solution cannot just be to give up.

But if all the instances work together on a federated solution, we might have a chance to keep Lemmy alive long enough that a) this sort of thing will naturally die down, and b) the collective efforts will allow bad actors to be identified and stopped no matter where they're coming from.

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What the fuck, dude? That's weird.

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