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Lemmyshitpost community closed until further notice (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by lwadmin@lemmy.world to c/lemmyworld@lemmy.world

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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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[-] Psythik@lemm.ee 13 points 1 year ago

Spez loses. Maybe he's the one behind it cause he's salty that people called him out for being a pedophile.

[-] Excrubulent@slrpnk.net 10 points 1 year ago

Yeah it's definitely a targeted campaign of sabotage. I'm glad people have found a way to stem the flow, but we'll need a better solution long term.

[-] Transcendant@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

It wouldn't surprise me if an associate of reddit (or someone they hired at arms length) was responsible for the DDOS attacks, but I highly doubt reddit as a company is hiring anyone to spam CSAM.

Think about what sort of motivations and personality someone would have to do it. IMO it's the guy who got butthurt over not being able to spam and threatened that he would wreck the site.

[-] pjhenry1216@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

It's highly unlikely. There are better, less CSAM ways for a company to make lemmy instances unstable. This is clearly for shock and troll value.

[-] Psythik@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

I know; I'm just being sarcastic. I didn't think I had to pull out the /s here on Lemmy, cause everyone here seems more intelligent (for the most part).

[-] pjhenry1216@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

I'm going to assume you meant that you didn't expect others to post the same sentiment alongside you unironically and not that anyone who replied to you seriously should have known better for literally no reason.