Sorry for the short post, I’m not able to make it nice with full context at the moment, but I want to quickly get this announcement out to prevent confusion:
Unfortunately, people are uploading child sexual abuse images on some instances (apparently as a form of attack against Lemmy). I am taking some steps to prevent such content from making it onto lemm.ee servers. As one preventative measure, I am disabling all image uploads on lemm.ee until further notice - this is to ensure that lemm.ee can not be used as gateway to spread CSAM into the network.
It will not possible to upload any new avatars or banners while this limit is in effect.
I’m really sorry for the disruption, it’s a necessary trade-off for now until we figure out the way forward.
This is sick. Kudos to mods for dealing with this garbage. I hope the posters are all hunted down and punished.
Yeah, the admins deserve all our support on this. Not only to protect themselves as server owners, but to stop the spread. Hopefully a longterm solution will be found soon
My honest reaction to this:
[removed externally hosted image]
We had to deal with something similar on lemmygrad a while ago. All power to you for destroying these annoying bastards.
We doubled the amount of mods, and banned anything remotely resembling the things on-site. Sadly many times it had to be a brave lemmygrad to check it first and take the bullet for us to report it. I was one of those people on several occasions. I still cringe at the memories. It lasted a few months iirc.I haven’t seen whatever is hitting you guys, but our bots had some recognizable features, usually hiding their spam behind spoilers or links.
It really was just a mobilization, lockdown, and purging everything that was suspicious until it stopped. That or they found a way to block those bots. I wasn’t in the command center by any means so the internal decisions I don’t know too much about.
Its a bug in sombodies markdown parsing.
Your URL was somehow HTML escaped.
Correct
…?width=640&height=480
Incorrect
…?width=640&height=480
I uh… don’t know what you mean there. I was just pointing out that the image I posted is hosted externally, so it doesn’t mean I found a bypass to the disabled uploads. It displays fine on the website.
It’s honestly sad that some well-intentioned laws can be used to attack online platforms.
I mean, the nuclear option should be used here even if there wasn’t legal liability because that shit just shouldn’t be here.