Mastodawn

sunaurus Aug 28, 2023

Image uploads are now disabled on lemm.ee due to malicious users

Image uploads are now disabled on lemm.ee due to malicious users - lemm.ee

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 [https://lemm.ee/post/5802229] (apparently as a form of attack against Lemmy). I am taking some steps to prevent such content from making it onto lemm.ee [http://lemm.ee] servers. As one preventative measure, I am disabling all image uploads on lemm.ee [http://lemm.ee] until further notice - this is to ensure that lemm.ee [http://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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GarbageShoot [he/him]Aug 29, 2023

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.

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𝒍𝒆𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒏 Aug 29, 2023

And I’m honestly sorry that people are blaming & attacking you guys for no tangible reason.

I’m surprised people have forgotten already about the attacks against lemmy.world, assumedly executed by a disgruntled ex-moderator long before we ever knew Hexbear existed.

Instead people are jumping to “OhH it’s ThE HexBeArS” when they have not been able to freely browse you guys’ discussions or even talk with you, they’re just shown the worst take from a minority (although tbf you guys do the same on c/cth, so it’s kinda funny seeing both sides with one not realising the other is also just a human too, just with differing culture and political stance)

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usa_suxxx [they/them]

Yeah, it’s kind of weird. Doesn’t whatever gets posted eventually get sent over to the other federated servers? Like every server saves a copy? Like the dumbest attack on another server would be this.