Lemmy devs NEED to get mod tools out asap. Approved posts only, whitelisting users for communities, etc.

This whole situation is shitty all around, I was really hoping it would be an isolated incident and that they wouldn't come back. I think I speak for everyone when I say that the bastards posting CSAM need to be jailed or worse. Disagree with an instance or community all you want, the instant you pull something like this, you've lost every single argument and are irredeemably a horrible person not worthy of touching a computer ever again.

Once again pedophiles ruin everything nice. I know me saying this isn't that helpful since I can't do anything about it, but I'm sorry this is happening on your instance (and is getting federated to other instances). Don't worry about inconvencing regular users, taking action against CSAM is far more important and any half amicable user will understand.

Some resources for reporting CSAM if you come across it anywhere (not just Lemmy):

US: https://www.missingkids.org/cybertipline

Canada: https://cybertip.ca/app/en/

International: https://www.inhope.org/

Last but not least, a reminder that if you accidentally load CSAM on your device, in most cases it will get cached to your storage because the majority of apps and browsers employ disk caching by default. You should at the very least clear your caches and then trim and fully wipe the free space on your device (maybe also directly shred the actual files if you can do that/know how to). Also know if you have any mandatory reporting laws where you live and comply with them. (EDIT: another commenter mentioned that in some jurisdictions you might actually not be allowed to delete them immediately and, presumably, have to contact police immediately reporting the active file on your device.) CYA to prevent yourself from getting screwed because of someone else's horrible acts. Also, something I've been thinking about since this whole thing started: it might also be helpful to use a no-disk-cache browser/app (or disable disk caching on your current browser/app if you are able to) if you do wish to keep using Lemmy, at least until this whole thing blows over, that way you can just close the page/program and reboot your device, and the local version should be gone, especially since flash storage devices cannot be reliably wiped with the "fill the drive with blank data" method (not sure how big the risk of it ending up in the swapfile or otherwise sticking around though or at what point it stops counting as possession). Being exposed to CSAM is a nightmare for this reason and unfortunately there seem to be no good resources on what to do if you're exposed.

I am not a lawyer and no part of this comment is legal advice.

Well that's fucking horrible. Jesus christ on a bicycle.

What's CSAM

Thank you for your work.

That also means that they could post to other communities, so I guess moderators need to be vigilant

What kind of lowlife piece of shit do you need to be to post some shit like that? Some people will stoop to the most depraved levels just to fuck with strangers, it's horrifying

is there a list somewhere including detailed descriptions of the tools needed?

My field is QA but i'm reasonably competent in a few scripting languages (mainly JS, but can also code in python and C#)

they would probably not be browser embedded, at least not at first, but i can dedicate a couple evenings a week to writing tools so long as there is a specification

isn't this what 8cjan is for? Seriously what the fuck is wrong with people who think that CSAM is appropriate shit post material. The Internet really is a fucked up place. is there a way to setup something to automatically remove inappropriate posts similar to YouTube's system of automatically removing inappropriate contents?

My guess is butthurt trumpolinas whose memes could not gain traction and were shat upon.

I do think if the platform needs to grow more, we need more full time devs working on it and building it up to par. Good time to start funding campaign for Lemmy

Are they only posting to this one community? If so, why? Would closing this community not just make them post on a different one?

I had no idea that this was going on. I expect that, like me, most people are horrified.

Have you reported this to the FBI?

That sucks! I saw one of these things and reported it. If you need moderators for when it opens I'm willing to help.