We have temporarily locked posting on AskLemmy until the CSAM posting stops.
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Doesn’t lemmy allow the communities to only allow text as posts? Could be a future feature
I feel like this is an underrated idea. Resonates with the whole thing of making a subset of the internet simpler and just like documents, as with the simpler protocols like Gemini etc.
That would still allow links to be posted. Better than allowing image posts, but not a complete solution.
It prevents concerns about hosting CSAM posted by someone else. A categorical improvement I’d say. But yes, nothing’s perfect.
Still better than nothing. Easier for mods of text-only communities to only have text-only posts submitted.
If we then add a few conditions: “no links in the root message” and “OP may not be the first to comment within some unspecified amount of time,” that could make it even easier to limit CSAM.
You’re right. I thought of another idea: use karma to decide who can post links, images and/or videos. 50 general karma for links, 100 for pictures, you get the idea.
Not an effective solution for a federated service. Just spin up a new instance and give yourself karma. Shoot, there is no centralized service for validating accounts, so just set up 50 alts across 50 instances.
CSAM? What is CSAM? Is it a rewrite of “scam”?
Googles…
Oh no. Oh no no no. Why are people so fucking shit?
Sometimes, when it’s too hard to be better and it’s easier to be worse, people choose to be worse just to feel different than what they are.
Child Sexual Abuse Material.
Today is a bad day to be named Sam.
See Sam.
See Sam run.
See Sam run down to the appropriate bureaucratic office to change their name to something else.
You don’t want to know, holy shit…
Lemmy.world is hosted on Cloudflare and Cloudflare has tools to prevent CSAM uploads. https://blog.cloudflare.com/the-csam-scanning-tool
Important note, this feature is only available for US customers.
Also important to note: this feature will only really work against real CSAM. The images that were posted to this community weren’t real CSAM but were pictures/gifs of adult models, with titles/captions that would imply they were CSAM. I don’t think Cloudflare can do much about those.
At least, the handful of posts that I saw were like this. I’m doubtful that the guy doing this is uploading actual CSAM to the clearnet.
Idk the other night was pretty real, 😞
Well… it seems there’s some issue with post removal federation. There’s still 2 posts visible from my home instance.
And now it’s definitely cached on our instance. And every other instance with pict-rs enabled.
This is what makes me scared of self hosting an instance. I would basically be hosting it. And I would be responsible for such content.Might be worth mentioning on !fediverse@lemmy.world
Ok, this is interesting. There was one just posted to !asklemmy@lemmy.ml, but it got removed from my instance as well.
The account looks deleted from lemm.ee, not found on lemmy.world, banned on lemmy.ml, and empty on lemmy.dbzer0.com.
Perhaps it’s account deletion that doesn’t federate properly.account deletion does not federate in general, only banning (+ content removal) does
Most !asklemmy@lemmy.world questions are better fit for !casualconversation@lemmy.world anyways.
Some could go to !nostupidquestions@lemmy.world too but tbh I think the user base as a whole is still too low for these differences to be meaningful to most people.
This is exactly what they wanted.
Thanks goddamn, WTF is wrong with people?
i don’t think that’s going to be very effective. i havent seen any of this but it sounds like a sybil attack. asklemmy isn’t the only vector. lemmy.world is going to need to do something, possibly drastic.
It’s not even just lemmy.world, the same user is reposting to ask lemmy on lemmy.ml now.
What are the victory conditions or payoff for someone posting that here?
Payoff: could be related to the coming Reddit IPO, to make alternatives unappealing or unsustainable.
Thank you for your work on it
I suggest limiting new accounts from uploading photos for 3 days, to prevent abuse.
3 days should be enough to make most people think twice before doing something so stupid, harmful and illegal. Most users don’t upload photos right as they sign up anyway so this effect to legitimate use should be negligible.
Sweet summer child.
that doesn’t do anything, they’ll just register accounts in advance and wait some days.
we’ve even had spam recently from accounts that had been dormant for months, although it was a different kind of spam.
I’m not saying it will prevent everything, including those with longstanding grudges, but especially if the period is not publicly announced/varies from server to server, then it will stop the impulsive trolls who can’t just make a bunch of accounts.
Similar to mandatory wait laws for guns and ID creation wait period for Wiimfi community-run online service.
at that point you’ll just discourage any new users if they have to gamble on whether or not their content is actually seen by anyone. account age really isn’t a good indicator of anything other than soemone being dedicated enough to spam. considering this isn’t the first wave of csam attacks, i can assure you that whoever is targeting lemmy with this is determined enough that account age won’t deter them for long, they’ll just have to slightly adjust their playbook.
Wtf, disgusting
Jesus, it’s still going on? I’ve kept away since seeing posts about it a couple days ago, but seriously, what the fuck?
I am a mod bot.
What are you so mod about?
Good bot gives cookie
So where am I supposed to ask my burning questions? This isn’t fair.
It’s open again?
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