Hello everyone,
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: @[email protected] 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.
These attacks didn’t happen on lemmyshitpost because there’s shitposts on lemmyshitpost. They happened because it was one of the largest communities. This is an attack, not some lost wackos trying to establish a CSAM sharing community.
I don’t think you understood my original comment.
There’s shitposting and then there’s mean-spirited shitposting. Lemmy’s community was the former, 4/8chan is the latter.
No, I did, but lemmyshitpost did not welcome 4chan/8chan type posters. It was supportive, inclusive and weird. Very much unlike chan culture.
I see why you’re confused because you think I was saying they were allowed when they weren’t.
No, the term “shitpost” is enough to draw them in.