Lemmyshitpost community closed until further notice - Lemmy.world
lemmy.world
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] [https://lemmy.world/u/Striker] 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. The only thing that could have prevented this is better moderation tools. And while a lot of the instance admins have been asking for this, it doesn’t seem to be on the developers roadmap for the time being. There are just two full-time developers on this project and they seem to have other priorities. No offense to them but it doesn’t inspire much faith for the future of Lemmy. 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.
  • Vlyn@lemmy.zipEnglish
    33·
    1 year ago

    I’m a bit confused, how does locking down a single community help?

    Are the spammers really just focusing on one community instead of switching to the next after it gets banned?

    I do hope there is an IP ban option, so someone can’t just use the same IP again to create an account on another instance and post CSAM from there. Obviously I do know about VPNs, but it makes it a tiny bit more difficult to spam in large amounts.

    • cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      11·
      1 year ago

      Most people don’t have static IP addresses, so banning their IP will only stop them temporarily. Then whoever gets that dynamic IP address next will be banned too. Then there’s CGNAT where 1 IP address can have up to 128 people using it at once and the address changes even more frequently.

      • Vlyn@lemmy.zipEnglish
        71·
        1 year ago

        We’re talking about temporary bans here, which do work against spam. Private users do have dynamic IPs, but at home I think I’ve had the same IP for years. They don’t wildly switch them around.

        On second thought the IP is probably not federated though, so if there isn’t a common IP block list which instances subscribe to it won’t work.

        • Darkassassin07English
          3·
          1 year ago

          Every time my router restarts I get a fresh wan IP. I can also manually grab a new one via the DHCP release/renew functions in it’s config page.

          • Vlyn@lemmy.zipEnglish
            22·
            1 year ago

            Weird, are you 100% sure? I can restart my router all day, my ISP gives me the same IP back pretty much every time.

            Probably depends on the ISP.