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.

  • 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.