lwadminAug 28, 2023

Temporary Changes to our Sign-Up Policy

https://lemmy.world/post/3995057

Temporary Changes to our Sign-Up Policy - Lemmy.world

Lemmy.world is temporarily disabling open signups and moving to an application-required signup process, due to ongoing issues with malicious bot accounts. We know this is a major step to take, but we believe that it’s the right one for both us and our community right now. We’re working on a better long-term technical solution to these bots, but that will take time to create, test, and verify that it doesn’t cause any problems with federation and how our users use our site, and we’d rather make sure we get it right than have a site that’s broken. We’re making this change on 28 Aug 2023, and don’t have a specific timeline for how long registrations will require an application, but we will post an update once our new anti-abuse measures are in place and working. Take care, LW Team

Show threadCookieJarObserverAug 28, 2023
Good hope the child porn posting stops with that.
Show threadAxisentialAug 28, 2023
Oh Christ, really? That’s just sickening. I often sort by new, sounds like I’ve been very lucky to miss it entirely…
Show threadCookieJarObserverAug 28, 2023
Yeah i had the unpleasant encounter several times by now…
Show threadSupraMarioAug 28, 2023

I’m guessing they’re not even flagging that shit as NSFW? I’ve been using liftoff and have the NSFW stuff hidden. I haven’t run into of it yet but that’s fucked up, hopefully it gets under control with this.

Maybe mods of each section can turn on manual approvals of submissions?

Show threadCookieJarObserverAug 28, 2023

Manually approving submissions would be even more work. And shits being posted everywhere.

And no, the ones i had a unpleasant encounter with weren’t flaired nsfw.

Show threadarcAug 28, 2023

Isn’t there a tool (possible free) by Google I think that detects abusive material like this?

protectingchildren.google/intl/en_uk/#introductio…

Fighting child sexual abuse online

Google is committed to fighting child sexual abuse material (CSAM) online and preventing our platforms from being used to spread this kind of content.

Show threadCookieJarObserver
Eh… I don’t think we should give up our privacy because one or two bastards are doing that shit…
Aug 28, 2023 at 3:23pmWeb
Show threadAvaddonLFC ☄️ 🤘Aug 29, 2023
Images posted to a public, federated platform should not count as private, in my opinion. When you upload something here, every federated server instantly gets a hold of it. What privacy is there to give up, then?
Show threadDraconic NEOAug 29, 2023

I agree, everything on Lemmy is public for all to see, that’s the nature of the Fediverse. Nothing here is really private, even vote counts since Admins of any self hosted server can see them, or Kbin which reveals them publicly for all.

Even DMs don’t have it, which is why it nags you to use Matrix for secure DMs.