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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@lemmy.world 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.

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[โ€“] howsetheraven@lemmy.world 24 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Would someone be able to ELI5 why lemmyshitpost has this problem but other communities don't or at least seemingly? I would think if they can do this to one lemmy.world community, wouldn't they be able to do all?

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Well that's fucking horrible. Jesus christ on a bicycle.

[โ€“] Severed_Fate@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago (21 children)
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[โ€“] figaro@lemdro.id 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Lemmy devs NEED to get mod tools out asap. Approved posts only, whitelisting users for communities, etc.

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[โ€“] Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de 21 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Thank you for your work.

That also means that they could post to other communities, so I guess moderators need to be vigilant

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[โ€“] PrettyFlyForAFatGuy@lemmy.ml 21 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

is there a list somewhere including detailed descriptions of the tools needed?

My field is QA but i'm reasonably competent in a few scripting languages (mainly JS, but can also code in python and C#)

they would probably not be browser embedded, at least not at first, but i can dedicate a couple evenings a week to writing tools so long as there is a specification

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[โ€“] 30mag@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago (5 children)

There are just two full-time developers on this project and they seem to have other priorities.

Can we do anything to help them?

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[โ€“] Chickenstalker@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago (4 children)

My guess is butthurt trumpolinas whose memes could not gain traction and were shat upon.

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[โ€“] quitenormal@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago

I had no idea that this was going on. I expect that, like me, most people are horrified.

[โ€“] TheMadnessKing@lemdro.id 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I do think if the platform needs to grow more, we need more full time devs working on it and building it up to par. Good time to start funding campaign for Lemmy

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[โ€“] Rawdogg@lemm.ee 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What kind of lowlife piece of shit do you need to be to post some shit like that? Some people will stoop to the most depraved levels just to fuck with strangers, it's horrifying

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[โ€“] ZestycloseReception8@sopuli.xyz 19 points 1 year ago (5 children)

isn't this what 8cjan is for? Seriously what the fuck is wrong with people who think that CSAM is appropriate shit post material. The Internet really is a fucked up place. is there a way to setup something to automatically remove inappropriate posts similar to YouTube's system of automatically removing inappropriate contents?

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[โ€“] dandroid@sh.itjust.works 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Are they only posting to this one community? If so, why? Would closing this community not just make them post on a different one?

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[โ€“] Ab_intra@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

That sucks! I saw one of these things and reported it. If you need moderators for when it opens I'm willing to help.

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