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: @[email protected] 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.

  • utopianfiat@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    1 year ago

    The developers who build lemmy aren’t able to put in CSAM blocking code. That’s not how this works.

    They absolutely can, and every forum under the sun has tools and extensions to help with this. Fucking 4chan has code specifically dedicated to deal with CSAM. You have no clue what you’re talking about.

    Oh no! Users can’t read lemmyshitpost and now the world is ending.

    Replace this with [email protected], or [email protected], or [email protected]. “Oh no, users can’t read the entire site” yes that is the definition of the end of the site.

    You’re not seeing that this isn’t a lemmyshitpost issue, it’s an “any popular community on lemmy” issue. Snarkily taking potshots at lemmyshitpost as a community doesn’t change it.

    Turning off the community is a viable option

    It’s not “not an option”, it’s the last resort. It’s like saying that your only option to seeing a roach in your apartment is to burn the whole building down. Because doing it means you don’t have a community anymore, and without communities the site has no purpose.

      • utopianfiat@lemmy.worldEnglish
        7·
        1 year ago

        Replace a site with CSAM and you’ll find it’s not a site you’ll want to go to in the first place.

        Are you being intentionally dense or do you not understand that it’s my point? If someone can flood lemmy with CSAM so easily that the only way to stop it is a site shutdown, then there are not sufficient mitigation measures in place.

          • cubedsteaks@lemmy.today
            2·
            1 year ago

            Yes, this is the Internet. Take your statement and replace “lemmy” with “reddit” “facebook” “9gag” “imgur” etc… No site has “sufficient mitigation measures in place” as CSAM continues to flood the internet.

            it’s true, if I remember correctly, tumblr was removed from the App Store because of CSA issues. I could be remembering wrong and maybe it was the Google Play Store.

      • cubedsteaks@lemmy.today
        2·
        1 year ago

        Cool, name them and give me links then. I could not find such on the internet. There is software that tries to detect this, but even youtube’s algorithm is incorrectly flagging fully clothed 30 year old women as children.

        have you ever talked to janitors and mods on 4chan? Good luck getting any info out of them.

          • cubedsteaks@lemmy.today
            4·
            1 year ago

            I’m not the other person you responded to and I never claimed to have an apps or links.

            I’m just telling you how this works on 4chan. I’m aware that’s not the entire internet obviously - your sarcasm needs work considering we are both here on Lemmy, ie, not 4chan.

            If anyone on there is using these programs/apps/whatever, they’re not just gonna tell other people about them.

            And as far as I know, I haven’t been on 4chan in like 3 years not but they region ban for CSAM.

              • cubedsteaks@lemmy.today
                7·
                1 year ago

                I just want people to understand that there isn’t a solution that we all think exists in other places and not here

                I agree with you on this. I agree with a lot of things you’re saying.

                part of responding means you know who you are talking to. I know it can be easy to forget someone is behind the screen here but there are in fact other human beings responding to you.

                Just try to be more considerate, if anything.