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

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Honestly, my first thoughts were that reddit had probably funded some blackhats to sabotage shit because they’re still salty. Then, they could have it reported.

Ignore these people telling you that you’re being too paranoid. I assumed the same about the series of DDoS attacks that lemmy.world experienced in the last few months. Reddit admins trying to undercut lemmy’s growing popularity “by any means necessary” is perfectly logical. DDoS followed by content attacks even follows Reddit’s own struggles over the years.

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It’s okay. Thank you for the support. They seemed quick to complain and kinda organized to be this deep in some obscure comment thread.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_lady_doth_protest_too_much,_methinks

And, agreed about the DDoS attacks.

The comment was more about inspiring a pro-fediverse angle, in any case. Imagine defending reddit, here of all places.

Go outside and touch the very first grass you see

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Honestly dude if you believe this is true you should speak with a therapist.

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Why would a guy who called their free labor “landed gentry” and thinks Elon Musk is running the site formerly known as twitter well, not go after where a shit ton of his content creators went? It’s stupid enough to be him, lol.

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See above

You drastically over estimate the number of people who were creating content on Reddit leaving for Lemmy.

The entire population of Lemmy is smaller than a mid sized cat sub on Reddit and the only content that is being reliably generated is memes.

Yes, a few subs did have their communities split, and some left permanently. But if you think Reddit corporate got at all bothered by Lemmy’s MAU numbers… no, they’re not that great.

A bunch of mods did indeed stop activity on Reddit, but all in all there’s been no practicable drop in volume.

PeleSpirit
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Do you think that I haven’t been back to check? The niche groups are fine, the bigger ones are hurting for content. I can read you know.

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That is exactly how they operate behind the scenes.

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If you believe businesspeople never commit crimes to shut down their competition, you should read some history books. Antitrust violations, murders, aerial bombings—you name it, and if it’s illegal and gives a business an advantage over its competition, it’s happened.

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