Lemmyshitpost community closed until further notice

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 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.

uhmbah,

Thank you. Thank you. Thank you!

scarabic,

Thank you.

ekZepp,
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Any news regarding the situation? (Tue 12:59)

HelloHotel,
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Tue Aug 29 1:04:32 PM EDT 2023,

Havent heard much yet, new comments are appearing rather slowly, we may be in some approve only mode.

prettydarknwild,
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wtf did just happened

jarfil,

What happened is I came to like 20 answers to comments in “post not found” conversations. Where am I supposed to shitcomment now? 🤬

SubArcticTundra,

Just post to [email protected]

prettydarknwild,
@prettydarknwild@lemmy.world avatar

Talking seriously, if the scenario that im thinking happened, im so happy that i wasnt around when hell broke loose. I really dont like the idea of watching cp by surprise and having my browser’s cache filled up with that shit, i also dont like the idea of my ISP noticing it

jarfil,

True. I don’t know when it started, think I checked a post this morning, and it was throwing an error for a jpeg I know was fine yesterday. Wonder whether that was part of the countermeasures, or if the attackers were trying to overload LW’s pictrs storage… or if there is some bug involved.

I can think of a pretty catastrophic scenario if ALL images served by LW could be replaced by CSAM. 😬

donut4ever,

Who is making these attacks?

Anti_Weeb_Penguin,

Sorry for my ignorance, what does CSAM mean? Thank you in advance.

Tugboater203,
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Child Sexual Abuse Material

Anti_Weeb_Penguin,

Thanks.

UnD3Rgr0uNDCL0wN,

BTW search doesnt work on here. Cant actually get it to open different comminities.

Dramachad,
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    KrisND,

    Few things…

    • Style is absolutely horrible…
    • Rules are WAY worse then any lemmy I’ve seen.
    • Pretty sure visiting that site put me on a watch list.

    There are so many lemmy instances to join instead lol https://join-lemmy.org/

    Dramachad,
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    The community is pretty good, no CSAM as far as I know

    newIdentity,

    People posting cp usually do it to harm a site or community. This also happend with reddit and multiple communities were shutdown because of it

    Dramachad,
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    Pretending it’s the “other” posting CP has been a longstanding fascist tactic going back to before Reddit.

    Blaze,
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    Thank you for editing your comment. Take care!

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    Ab_intra,
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    Wait what!?!

    Whitehat93875,
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    There was an Instance (check bottom of instances page, it’s the most recent one in blocked as of writing this) that had rules allowing loli (drawn CSAM) which was defederated very recently. I originally made a post about it on support but deleted it because there was a lot of backlash (backlash against defederating a loli CSAM instance 😒) so I just messaged about it privately, not just to lw admins but to many others as well across lemmy.

    Ab_intra,
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    There was a backlash against your post for defederating a instance that allows loli? Wtf.

    Whitehat93875,
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    Indeed there was. I don’t understand why.

    Agamemnon,
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    Neither namedropping nor virtue signalling nor spreading misinformation is okay.

    Whitehat93875,
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    What misinformation, are you trying to imply that the known instance wasn’t defederated for hosting or allowing the hosting of illegal content, do you think they weren’t at all or do you think loli is acceptable and not CSAM, because FYI opinions may vary but the law is clear CSAM even fictional is illegal to produce, host, or consume.

    pewgar_seemsimandroid,

    hah other instances will just recreate it

    Librechad,

    What if the mods are just keeping the CSAM and getting away with it? We don’t even know these people. This lowkey just looks bad on both sides.

    iquanyin,
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    no it doesn’t. what if facebook is paying you to come here and undermine trust? it’s more likely than your speculation.

    favrion,
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    Jackthelad,

    Thankfully, I never stray from my subscriptions feed so never have the misfortune of seeing any of this.

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