We unfortunately have to close the !lemmyshitpost community for the time being. We have been fighting the CSAM (Child Sexual Assault Material) posts all day but there is nothing we can do because they will just post from another instance since we changed our registration policy.

We keep working on a solution, we have a few things in the works but that won't help us now.

Thank you for your understanding and apologies to our users, moderators and admins of other instances who had to deal with this.

Edit: @Striker@lemmy.world the moderator of the affected community made a post apologizing for what happened. But this could not be stopped even with 10 moderators. And if it wasn't his community it would have been another one. And it is clear this could happen on any instance.

But we will not give up. We are lucky to have a very dedicated team and we can hopefully make an announcement about what's next very soon.

Edit 2: removed that bit about the moderator tools. That came out a bit harsher than how we meant it. It's been a long day and having to deal with this kind of stuff got some of us a bit salty to say the least. Remember we also had to deal with people posting scat not too long ago so this isn't the first time we felt helpless. Anyway, I hope we can announce something more positive soon.

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[–] Cabrio@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's not meant to solve the problem, it's meant to limit liability.

[–] krayj@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How does it limit liability when they could continue posting that content to any/every other community on lemmy.world?

[–] Cabrio@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

But it does remove the immediate issue of CSAM coming from shitpost so world isn't hosting that content.

[–] Double_A@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Shitpost is not the only community on World Ffs!

[–] stealthnerd@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

They're taking a whack-a-mole approach for sure but it's either that or shut the whole instance down. I imagine their hope is that either the bad guys give up/lose interest or that it buys them some time.

Either way, it shows they are taking action which ultimately should help limit their liability.