Lemmyshitpost community closed until further notice - 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: @[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.

They also shut down registration

Whoever is spamming CP deserves the woodchipper

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/blob/main/LICENSE

The software provided as is. Period. They never agreed to be support boys for someone, and the amount of work doesn’t really correlate to the amount of money they get from donations unless they both live in a third world country.

https://jacobtomlinson.dev/posts/2022/dont-be-that-open-source-user-dont-be-me/

It’s just a matter of not being entitled, that’s it. All I’m asking for is so that people would be more polite to FOSS devs. If they stop doing their work right now what are you going to do? Implement the mod tools yourself? Then go ahead.

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That’s part of the trolling though, yeah? Thay make the devs, admins and mods feel unappreciated so that they quit. This is a systematic take down of lemmy from all sides.

Absolutely. It’s already worked on some instances as well. It’s upsetting.

I’m sorry, but I have difficulty being polite to someone who has actively ignored addressing safety concerns that were brought up months ago. FOSS or not.

Stop misconstruing it as safety. It’s about legality. Nobody’s safety is in jeopardy because they saw an illegal image accidentally. This is about following the law, not protecting the safety of users.

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“CSAM laws aren’t for the safety of real people” is one of the hottest takes I’ve ever seen in my life

Straight outta reddit with that one.

I’m just going to copy paste my other comment:

I thought it was pretty apparent we were talking about Lemmy, but okay.

The statements were about the Lemmy devs can and/or should be doing for safety. They simply do not have the power to stop child abuse by developing a social media platform. So then the safety in question must be the safety of people using Lemmy, because the Lemmy devs have some direct power over that.

I’m sure you feel very morally aloof with your righteous retort, though.

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Yes. Obviously we’re talking about Lemmy. We just still fundamentally disagree on the forms of harm, psychic and physical, that can be experienced through the rapid propagation of CSAM. Lemmy’s lacking mod tools have been a major topic of discussion for a while now. I don’t care to carry on this conversation because it’s clear our starting points are too far apart to meet in the middle

I think the other guy’s comment is well suited as a response to this, so again I’ll copy paste:

The theory behind why CSAM is illegal is that if someone is willing to pay for CSAM it incentivizes production of even more CSAM content to receive more payment. That incentivized additional production means even more abuse. A perfectly reasonable take and something that I think can be demonstrated.

But why would you accidentally seeing CSAM prompt you to give payment to create that incentivization?

How could reason possibly prevail when the subject matter is so sensitive?

It ties into safety as well, websites have “trust and safety” teams. This is where it falls under. Sorry for not being more concise.

No need to apologize, I just think safety is a misnomer here.

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nobody’s safety is in jeopardy

You know, except for those abuse victims whose pictures are being spread around lemmy. Just sayin’

I thought it was pretty apparent we were talking about Lemmy, but okay.

The statements were about the Lemmy devs can and/or should be doing for safety. They simply do not have the power to stop child abuse by developing a social media platform. So then the safety in question must be the safety of people using Lemmy, because the Lemmy devs have some direct power over that.

I’m sure you feel very morally aloof with your righteous retort, though.

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The theory behind why CSAM is illegal is that if someone is willing to pay for CSAM it incentivizes production of even more CSAM content to receive more payment. That incentivized additional production means even more abuse. A perfectly reasonable take and something that I think can be demonstrated.

But why would you accidentally seeing CSAM prompt you to give payment to create that incentivization? Are you worried that you’re a closeted pedophile that will be ready to shower those who record such content to see more and more as soon as you get your first taste?

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