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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.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Any chance that gravatar support could be implemented? This would allow some basic functionality without hosting content on lemm.ee servers.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Seems like this is still disabled, is it now in play for the foreseeable future? What about setting a time frame in which no images can be posted until it's surpassed? Or maybe have an approval required for adding the avatar and banner?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Hey, this post is quite old, actually you can find the latest info in the sidebar of our front page:

  • Image uploads are enabled 4 weeks after account creation
  • Image upload limit is 500kb per image
[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Okay, so I'll be set in the next few days. Many thanks!!!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 years ago

Better shut the internet down then. This will only continue to worsen now that anybody can generate whatever images they want with AI assistance. Such image hashes will not be in CSAM databases (if AI generated imagery is even CSAM)