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We have temporarily locked posting on AskLemmy until the CSAM posting stops.

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[–] testeronious@lemmy.world 60 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Doesn't lemmy allow the communities to only allow text as posts? Could be a future feature

[–] maegul@lemmy.ml 37 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I feel like this is an underrated idea. Resonates with the whole thing of making a subset of the internet simpler and just like documents, as with the simpler protocols like Gemini etc.

[–] Davel23@kbin.social 11 points 9 months ago (5 children)

That would still allow links to be posted. Better than allowing image posts, but not a complete solution.

[–] maegul@lemmy.ml 21 points 9 months ago

It prevents concerns about hosting CSAM posted by someone else. A categorical improvement I’d say. But yes, nothing’s perfect.

[–] rar@discuss.online 11 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Still better than nothing. Easier for mods of text-only communities to only have text-only posts submitted.

[–] Iron_Lynx@lemmy.world 6 points 9 months ago

If we then add a few conditions: "no links in the root message" and "OP may not be the first to comment within some unspecified amount of time," that could make it even easier to limit CSAM.

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[–] whaleross@lemmy.world 47 points 9 months ago (4 children)

CSAM? What is CSAM? Is it a rewrite of "scam"?

Googles...

Oh no. Oh no no no. Why are people so fucking shit?

[–] Lath@kbin.social 15 points 9 months ago

Sometimes, when it's too hard to be better and it's easier to be worse, people choose to be worse just to feel different than what they are.

[–] shinigamiookamiryuu@lemm.ee 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Today is a bad day to be named Sam.

[–] edgemaster72@lemmy.world 15 points 9 months ago

See Sam.

See Sam run.

See Sam run down to the appropriate bureaucratic office to change their name to something else.

[–] Clbull@lemmy.world 8 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Child Sexual Abuse Material.

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[–] Greg@lemmy.ca 29 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Lemmy.world is hosted on Cloudflare and Cloudflare has tools to prevent CSAM uploads. https://blog.cloudflare.com/the-csam-scanning-tool

[–] sunaurus@lemm.ee 28 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Important note, this feature is only available for US customers.

[–] Chozo@kbin.social 22 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Also important to note: this feature will only really work against real CSAM. The images that were posted to this community weren't real CSAM but were pictures/gifs of adult models, with titles/captions that would imply they were CSAM. I don't think Cloudflare can do much about those.

At least, the handful of posts that I saw were like this. I'm doubtful that the guy doing this is uploading actual CSAM to the clearnet.

[–] Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I hope you’re right, because as someone that sometimes browses by new I keep seeing it and it’s upsetting as fuck to think it could be real.

It’s weird they’re targeting asklemmy communities in particular, I don’t think the .ml and .world communities are even related are they?

[–] Chozo@kbin.social 14 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Nah, they're completely separate communities, so no real link that I can see there.

I dug around a bit, and one of the sites he was using to host the images was some weird 4chan-like image board. But it seems like he may have been trolling them, too, because even though it's a degenerate board full of racist garbage, it's not otherwise full of CSAM, and his posts were also deleted from that board eventually, too. So I don't think they were willingly hosting those images, either. I mention this because I saw some people calling to ban links to that domain, which probably should still be done because it's a trash website, but not because it's a CSAM haven of any sort.

It makes me think that this isn't targeted at any one community, just some random weirdo trying to make the internet a worse place wherever he can.

[–] chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 9 months ago

I frequent a small imageboard and supposedly there is currently a wave of this shit across basically all such sites. The leading theory is it's being posted by feds as a honeypot or to drive people away from decentralized online discussion, everybody hates it.

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[–] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 18 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Well... it seems there's some issue with post removal federation. There's still 2 posts visible from my home instance.

And now it's definitely cached on our instance. And every other instance with pict-rs enabled.
This is what makes me scared of self hosting an instance. I would basically be hosting it. And I would be responsible for such content.

[–] Bluetreefrog@lemmy.world 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Ok, this is interesting. There was one just posted to !asklemmy@lemmy.ml, but it got removed from my instance as well.

The account looks deleted from lemm.ee, not found on lemmy.world, banned on lemmy.ml, and empty on lemmy.dbzer0.com.
Perhaps it's account deletion that doesn't federate properly.

[–] example@reddthat.com 5 points 9 months ago

account deletion does not federate in general, only banning (+ content removal) does

[–] recapitated@lemmy.world 11 points 9 months ago (1 children)

What are the victory conditions or payoff for someone posting that here?

[–] Asidonhopo@lemmy.world 26 points 9 months ago

Payoff: could be related to the coming Reddit IPO, to make alternatives unappealing or unsustainable.

[–] GilgameshCatBeard@lemmy.ca 6 points 9 months ago

This is exactly what they wanted.

[–] favrion@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

So where am I supposed to ask my burning questions? This isn't fair.

[–] Bluetreefrog@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)
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[–] altima_neo@lemmy.zip 4 points 9 months ago

Thanks goddamn, WTF is wrong with people?

[–] lemmy_bot@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago (2 children)
[–] recapitated@lemmy.world 6 points 9 months ago

What are you so mod about?

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[–] Krudler@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

Thank you for your work on it

Jesus, it’s still going on? I’ve kept away since seeing posts about it a couple days ago, but seriously, what the fuck?

[–] shinigamiookamiryuu@lemm.ee 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] can@sh.itjust.works 3 points 9 months ago

Some could go to !nostupidquestions@lemmy.world too but tbh I think the user base as a whole is still too low for these differences to be meaningful to most people.

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