Lemmyshitpost community closed until further notice - Lemmy.World
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Hello everyone, We unfortunately have to close the !lemmyshitpost community for the time being. We have been fighting the CSAM (Child Sexual Assault Material) posts all day but there is nothing we can do because they will just post from another instance since we changed our registration policy. We keep working on a solution, we have a few things in the works but that won’t help us now. Thank you for your understanding and apologies to our users, moderators and admins of other instances who had to deal with this. Edit: @Striker@lemmy.world [https://lemmy.world/u/Striker] the moderator of the affected community made a post apologizing for what happened. But this could not be stopped even with 10 moderators. And if it wasn’t his community it would have been another one. And it is clear this could happen on any instance. But we will not give up. We are lucky to have a very dedicated team and we can hopefully make an announcement about what’s next very soon. Edit 2: removed that bit about the moderator tools. That came out a bit harsher than how we meant it. It’s been a long day and having to deal with this kind of stuff got some of us a bit salty to say the least. Remember we also had to deal with people posting scat not too long ago so this isn’t the first time we felt helpless. Anyway, I hope we can announce something more positive soon.
  • cmnyboEnglish
    10·
    10 months ago

    Most people don’t have static IP addresses, so banning their IP will only stop them temporarily. Then whoever gets that dynamic IP address next will be banned too. Then there’s CGNAT where 1 IP address can have up to 128 people using it at once and the address changes even more frequently.

    • Vlyn@lemmy.zipEnglish
      71·
      10 months ago

      We’re talking about temporary bans here, which do work against spam. Private users do have dynamic IPs, but at home I think I’ve had the same IP for years. They don’t wildly switch them around.

      On second thought the IP is probably not federated though, so if there isn’t a common IP block list which instances subscribe to it won’t work.

      • Darkassassin07@lemmy.caEnglish
        3·
        10 months ago

        Every time my router restarts I get a fresh wan IP. I can also manually grab a new one via the DHCP release/renew functions in it’s config page.

        • Vlyn@lemmy.zipEnglish
          22·
          10 months ago

          Weird, are you 100% sure? I can restart my router all day, my ISP gives me the same IP back pretty much every time.

          Probably depends on the ISP.