LemmyWorld forced to close shitposting community due to CSAM spammers

The fact that some of you are putting the blame on instance owners/moderators is just showing that you have about the same amount of brain rot as the people actually posting this vile trash

These comments so far stink, yall are something else.

Looks like some CSAM fuzzy hashing would go a long way to catch someone trying to submit that kind of content if each uploaded image is scanned.

https://blog.cloudflare.com/the-csam-scanning-tool/

Not saying to go with CloudFlare (just showing how the detection works overall), but some kind of builtin detection system coded into Lemmy that grabs an updated hash table periodically

Is there not some way to involve the authorities? I feel like FBI/CIA or other foreign agencies would love to track down whoever is distributing. Like set up some sort of honeypot instance to catch them

I'm a bit confused, how does locking down a single community help?

Are the spammers really just focusing on one community instead of switching to the next after it gets banned?

I do hope there is an IP ban option, so someone can't just use the same IP again to create an account on another instance and post CSAM from there. Obviously I do know about VPNs, but it makes it a tiny bit more difficult to spam in large amounts.

Is it that hard to not be completely retarded and innapropriate on the internet for these people? Only "viable" alternative to reddit and they have to fuck it up

While I understand the move entirely I can't help but wonder if that might have been the intent of the perpetrators.

One solution, perhaps, is if Lemmy users were better able to overcome the inertia of moving Communities, Instances, accounts, etc. Essentially to be a moving target for anyone who might want to cause harm. DDoSing lemmy.world? Okay, but we're all on lemmy2.world now. Spamming a Community? Oh, you mean that one we all left?

I'm not criticizing others, because I'm as guilty of it any anyone, but it might be better if we realized that our usernames are meaningless, there's no Karma, our comment histories are full of ephemeral observations with only a very specific relevance. It wouldn't really matter if - worst case scenario - everything was deleted. I realise this wouldn't sound acceptable to new users, but since many of us on instances run by one person as a hobby, that might happen anyway.

(As I was typing this, someone just replied to a 17 days old comment I made, so maybe this is all rubbish)

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After reading this thread, I think we need fediverselorelore

What is csam? I don't want to Google it.

rise of uselessserver093? confirmed

i already filter shitposting coms. all the better

Shit posting needs to die anyway. Only thing that should be allowed on the internet is knowledge and education. Throw out the corporations too.

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.

God, lemmy.world admins are something else

Lemmy.world is the worst, sucks to suck.