I've actually never seen anything of this stuff so good job!
this post was submitted on 28 Aug 2023
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I would like to extend my sincerest apologies to all of the users here who liked lemmy shit posting. I feel like I let the situation grow too out of control before getting help. Don't worry I am not quitting. I fully intend on staying around. The other two deserted the community but I won't. Dm me If you wish to apply for mod.
Sincerest thanks to the admin team for dealing with this situation. I wish I linked in with you all earlier.
@[email protected] this is not your fault. You stepped up when we asked you to and actively reached out for help getting the community moderated. But even with extra moderators this can not be stopped. Lemmy needs better moderation tools.
Hopefully the devs will take the lesson from this incident and put some better tools together.
Or we'll finally accept that the core Lemmy devs aren't capable of producing a functioning piece of software and fork it.
Its not easy to build a social media app, forking it won't make it any easier to solve this particular problem. Joining forces to tackle an inevitable problem is the only solution. The Lemmy devs are more than willing to accept pull requests for software improvements.
There's a Matrix Room for building mod tools here maybe we might want to bring up this issue there, just in case they aren't already aware.
Fuck these trolls
Trolls? In most regions of the planet, I am fairly certain their actions would be considered criminal.
Criminals.
That's not a troll, CSAM goes well beyond trolling, pedophile would be a more accurate term for them.
Yeah. A troll might post something like a ton of oversized images of pig buttholes. Who the fuck even has access to CSAM to post? That's something you only have on hand if you're a predator already. Nor is it something you can shrug off like "lol I was only trolling". It's a crime that will send you to jail for years. It's a major crime that gets entire police units dedicated to it. It's a huuuuge deal and I cannot even fathom what kind of person would risk years in prison to sabotage an internet forum.
troll is too mild of an adjective for these people
Yeah honestly report all of those accounts to law enforcement. Itโs unlikely theyโd be able to do much, I assume, but these people are literally distributing CSAM.
Yeah, this isnโt just joking or shitposting. This is the kind of shit that gets people locked up in federal pound-you-in-the-ass prison for decades. The feds donโt care if you sought out the CSAM, because it still exists on your device regardless of intent.
The laws about possessing CSAM are written in a way that any plausible deniability is removed, specifically to prevent pedophiles from being able to go โoh lol a buddy sent that to me as a jokeโ and getting acquitted. The courts donโt care why you have CSAM on your server. All they care about is the fact that you do. And since you own the server, you own the CSAM and theyโll prosecute you for it.
Sounds like a digital form of SWATing.
And not just the instance admins would be at risk as well. Any time you view an image your device is making a local copy of it. Meaning every person who viewed the image even accidentally is at risk as well.
How about "pedophile"? I mean, they had to have the images to post them.
"Terrorist". Having the images doesn't mean they liked them, they used them to terrorize a whole community though.