This is sick. Kudos to mods for dealing with this garbage. I hope the posters are all hunted down and punished.

I think this is a great move until we have something rock solid to prevent this. There are tons of image hosting sites you can use (most of which have the resources to already try to prevent this stuff) so it shouldn’t really cause much inconvenience.

I know there are automated tools that exist for detection CSAM- given the challenges the fediverse has had with this issue it really feels like it'd be worthwhile for the folks developing platforms like lemmy and mastodon to start thinking about how to integrate those tools with their platforms to better support moderators and folks running instances.

No apologies necessary.

This is really sad and disgusting. It affects the whole platform but especially smaller instances that can't keep up. Despite being a lemm.ee user, I was particularly upset about thegarden.land shutting down because of that spam. It had my favourite gardening community on here.

I really hope this gets sorted out, and the spammers end up where they belong.

Perfectly fine. People can upload images elsewhere and then just link to them. Most image upload sites will have all those protections in place already. A good stopgap until Lemmy gets those mod tools

This is why we can't have nice things.

It's honestly sad that some well-intentioned laws can be used to attack online platforms.

This might be a good thread to ask:

Does anyone know if any of the Lemmy apps support direct imgur uploads for Lemmy?

I remember RIF used to do that for reddit back in the day before reddit supported direct image hosting.

Did you alert authorities?

Thank you for the efforts you are making. This is a serious situation; more than just dealing with bad actors, you are viewing traumatic images.

Please, for your sanity and well being, prioritize your self care. Things like this linger in the psyche much longer than you would expect.

That's fucking disgusting. Take any measures you can to prevent that shit from being on the site.

People like this are despicable

Mastodon/Lemmy should work together on some tool for this, it would probably make it easier, and they both have problems with it now

That's disgusting! You made the right thing, sorry you admins and mods have to put up with that shit, I hope instance owners that are being attacked are reporting it to local authorities.

I think its necesary, no problem.

Thank you sir. I appreciate the dedication to the community to subject yourself to the moderation. Hopefully we can squash this before it goes too far, farther than it has anyway..

Well, that sucks i wanted to share some cute pics i took of my cats

whats the over/under wager that it was retaliation for the recent "h e x b e a r" shit?

This sucks, but given the circumstances it's sadly an understandable and necessary course of action.

Thanks for taking care about that.

Honestly, Im bit confused, I can still see image uploads posts like: https://lemm.ee/post/5858721

I guess I was lucky I didnt see morbid posts, just want to be sure Im safe now. Is it safe enough to just browse lemm.ee local?

Guessing there's no way to track down the uploaders?

Are the lemm.ee servers not located in a region that protects online forums from the content that its users post?