My friend who runs the instance i am on nuked all the images cause some degen thought spreading cp was a good idea. So have some more motivational word art
There's always someone who doesn't mind ruining it for everyone else. Probably safest to just delete all the images, that way there's no need to look.
Once again reaffirming why I refuse to host an instance. If I ever do, I’m not federating with any of you degenerates lol
Federation still causes those images to be saved on your hardware, even if the account that creates it is hosted somewhere else.
This is kinda a major problem with lemmy, and the idea that they don't have CSAM detection on the roadmap is going to make wide adoption a near impossibility. The other thing though is that even automated CSAM detection isn't 100%, so hosting your own instance likely means you're going to have to view CSAM and other fucked up shit at some point to properly moderate it, even if you're just hosting for yourself. Tbh I was strongly considering hosting my own instance because it's not like, that hard/expensive, but this saga has turned me completely off of that idea, even just for myself.
This actually makes me wonder how much reddit mods deal with this type of thing instead of paid employees like facebook, which has a paid army dealing with content moderation on facebook. Oh, and talking about xitter now which has neither volunteer mods and no moderation team since Elon fired them all, I assume that the freaks have just decided that's their hosting platform of choice.
I think it was an issue where the CSAM was being copied to servers via normal federation with the instance(s) being spammed.
I'm glad s/he was able to nuke the CSAM, even if other material was nuked with it. This crap is why I'm not hosting.
Please, call it CSAM (child sexual abuse material) and not CP (child pornography). The children in these photos/videos can't make pornography, they're sexually abused into making this material. CP insinuates that it's legitimate porn with children. CSAM, on the other hand, calls it what it is: sexual abuse of children.
That is needlessly pedantic. I have never heard of anyone using the word pornography to imply legality or moral acceptability. There is no such thing as "legitimate" CP, so there is no need to specify that it's not ok every time it is mentioned. No one in their right mind would presume he's some kind of CP supporting monster for failing to do so.
If we spent more time fixing things rather than naming them the world would be a better place.
No one in their right mind would assume that OP is. But the term was created to legitimize the material. So, while you're correct in that it is picky, it is also picky for a reason. Words are powerful. We should fight to not empower the legitimation of that term, among other things.
Just because you aren't affected doesn't mean it is no problem. This isn't needlessly pedantic, it just shows your ignorance and idiocy.
a the rapist
I know that guy Tobias Fünke, althought he also is a analysist. He had some clever abreviation for that as well!
Bless you ❤️
I'm not gonna lie, I'm surprised it took this long for some dipshit to try something like this. Lemmy's security has more holes in it than a piece of Swiss cheese and we're fools if we think it's viable enough for it to serve as a long-term home for new social media.
We really, really need a better social structure than federation.
Lemmy’s security has more holes in it than a piece of Swiss cheese
This has very little to do with security. There's inherently "insecure" about posting CSAM, since the accounts and images were likely posted just like any other.
What really needs to happen, is some sort of detection of that kind of content (which would likely require a large change to code) or additional moderation tools.
Lemmy's security
I think you mis-spelled moderation tools, nice quick fix would have been to block posts from new users on X instance and have a pinned post briefly covering why - they'll eventually run out of instances that don't have open signups IMO or just give up.
Another mod tools option would be rate limiting of posts, i.e. users can only make a new shitpost every 10-15min, rather than unlimited times per minute
Those are all fundamental aspects of Lemmy's security that should be there but are not
In the meanwhile, my YunoHost based instance that still hasn't managed to make Pict-RS work and therefore can't even store images even if it wanted to is doing juuuuust fine
Come to think of it, if you're the only user, it's kinda protecting you, isn't it? (hello fellow Yunohost user!)
You referenced the Nazi term, "degenerate." Most of the time the people behind these attacks are very much aligned with Nazi ideology.
Guys, I think this is a troll account. Probably from the same bad actors that caused the original issue OP is complaining about.
Illegal images didn't work, so they took the "talk about Nazis" approach.
I dont understand why this post is downvoted so much. It is calling the people who undermine Lemmy with CP Nazis (which they probably are) and points out some historical context of a specific term. I thought Lemmy would be up for that.
Tell your friend to log the IP address and report it to the authorities. They might need to turn over the entire modlog as well
This is likely in reference to the federation of such images posted elsewhere