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.
If a single hexbear user is participating in this (which I sincerely doubt, and honestly refuse to lend any bit credence towards, and yet I indulge this fantastical hypothetical nonetheless) they will immediately be site-banned for 1984 years. CSAM is reprehensible and is not tolerated. I truly doubt this is the case. If Hexbear is occupying this kind of space in your brain, I would wholeheartedly recommend you and meet some people.
I don’t know what the Hexbears would have to gain from attacking lemm.ee. It’s one of the mainstream instances that hasn’t defederated from Hexbear, so there also wouldn’t be anything to retaliate against unless I’m missing some news.
Don’t try to understand an army of trolls. Part of the job is destroying itself
And yet look how many replies it’s getting. Seems maybe it isn’t so unhinged? Have you only been on the Internet for a few days?
And yet look how many replies it’s getting
You just accused hexbears of not only possessing but also posting images of children being r****, and youre really shocked that users from here came out to tell you that that’s complete bullshit? Would you just not respond if I started making posts saying “hey everybody, just so you know, @thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org likes to download images of CSAM and post them on the internet” with absolutely no evidence except general vibes that I don’t like you?
i think they think we’re name-searching and not just terminally online posters who click on things that pop into our feed
Not a single lemmy user or admin, was it .world, .ml, HB or exploding heads or dbzer0 would benefit from other instances being attacked like this. Spamming normal porn or gore maybe could go as a joke or retaliation sure but using csam is very threatening to the whole fediverse even if done against a single small instance.
No federated instance would benefit from it, but users of a defederated instance might think it’s a good idea if they viewed it as hampering the competition.
Why would a Hexbear user do this?
Like, beyond your accusation that we’re fostering the kinds of users that have CSAM on hand, what possible reason would any of us have to try to shut down any instance let alone one that is by-and-large friendly (or at least neutral) to Hexbear?
Relax, it’s just the second prong of the attack. First you inflame a community by grossly violating their shared standards and then accuse certain members in the community of complicity.
The right wing is in such disarray that their only defence is to keep left-wingers fighting amongst themselves.