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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[–] utopianfiat@lemmy.world 106 points 1 year ago (73 children)

I hope the devs take this seriously as an existential threat to the fediverse. Lemmyshitpost was one of the largest communities on the network both in AUPH and subscribers. If taking the community down is the only option here, that's extremely insufficient and bodes death for the platform at the hands of uncontrolled spam.

[–] systemglitch@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago

It doesn't bode well.

[–] 1984@lemmy.today 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Lemmy is new for all of us. I don't see any other solution right now. You got some ideas how to handle it better?

I think better mod tools are needed but it will take time. Doesn't mean the platform will die, but means we may have to deal with some stuff like this.

[–] utopianfiat@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's a hard problem but it absolutely is an existential risk. Spam is an existential risk. A platform that collapses under spam will either remain too small to be irrelevant or collapse from unusability. I'm sorry but I don't think your response completely grasps the number of forums, social media sites, wikis, etc. that have been completely crushed by spam.

[–] 1984@lemmy.today 4 points 1 year ago

I admit I haven't kept track of that, true.

[–] SamboT@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Solution now. Better solution later.

[–] utopianfiat@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

That's what I'm hoping - we can't just burn down any community with spam

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