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: @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.
How come that I never encountered any kind of this content and browse constantly Lemmy, is this one of the perks of surfing through subscribed feed?
I unsubscribed from meme communities very early on because they were spamming such a feed.
Also a situation where avoiding “New” helps, since no one is up-voting that BS.
Yeah, honestly I don’t see the appeal to browsing new, I usually see 6 hours is the recommended sort, I have been sorting by daily as of lately.
Not enjoying shitposting saved me here too. Like you, I’ve blocked so many meme communities. Not a hater, just not the content I’m interested in.
It saved us here, but who knows where they could end up spamming it next?
Yeah to be honest I didn’t block them, I just wasn’t subscribed to them and 90% of my Lemmy usage comes from my subscribed feed.
But I can see these scums picking whatever community they feel like.