This is sick. Kudos to mods for dealing with this garbage. I hope the posters are all hunted down and punished.

I think this is a great move until we have something rock solid to prevent this. There are tons of image hosting sites you can use (most of which have the resources to already try to prevent this stuff) so it shouldn’t really cause much inconvenience.

I'm sorry that you and the people on this instance are being subjected to that shit. It's always despicable but on top of that it just seems absurd to target lemm.ee -- a deliberately unprofitable platform -- with such illegal means.

We had to deal with something similar on lemmygrad a while ago. All power to you for destroying these annoying bastards.

condolences for having to deal with this and full support of your actions.

I know there are automated tools that exist for detection CSAM- given the challenges the fediverse has had with this issue it really feels like it'd be worthwhile for the folks developing platforms like lemmy and mastodon to start thinking about how to integrate those tools with their platforms to better support moderators and folks running instances.

My honest reaction to this:

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fucking disgusting, and I'm sorry you and your mods, admins and users were subjected to this

No apologies necessary.

I honestly think this is the reason why message boards generally don't have the feature to attach images to posts anymore.

This is really sad and disgusting. It affects the whole platform but especially smaller instances that can't keep up. Despite being a lemm.ee user, I was particularly upset about thegarden.land shutting down because of that spam. It had my favourite gardening community on here.

I really hope this gets sorted out, and the spammers end up where they belong.

This is foul and I am extremely sorry for the users and mods who were sent the CSAM. It isn't something they should expect to deal with in a voluntary role for their communities and it can be traumatic. I hope they are given time and space to process their emotions.

Damn this sucks.

This is why we can't have nice things.

its better to be safe, than to risk it with the spammers, hopefully this matter will get resolved quickly

It's honestly sad that some well-intentioned laws can be used to attack online platforms.

This might be a good thread to ask:

Does anyone know if any of the Lemmy apps support direct imgur uploads for Lemmy?

I remember RIF used to do that for reddit back in the day before reddit supported direct image hosting.

Did you alert authorities?