Last Week in Fediverse – episode 33
#Lemmy has experienced CSAM attacks in the last week, with the material posted on multiple communities for people to see. Due to how federation works on Lemmy, this meant that the images also got send over and stored in the databases of other Lemmy servers. This poses questions and challenges for the admins, among others on how to make sure they are legally compliant.
For this, and other news, read: https://fediversereport.com/last-week-in-fediverse-episode-33/
@fediversereport Really disgusting and disappointing behaviour re the Lemmy attacks. Thanks for the interesting write-up
@roddie@mstdn.social @fediversereport@mastodon.social thanks! Wasn't the most fun write-up to do haha, but its important to get the news out. building your own decentralized social networks comes with some real challenges that shouldnt be downplayed
@laurenshof @fediversereport @roddie
Really sad to hear this. Though the flippant attitude from the Admins does not surprise me.
How is #Kbin doing? I know that it was slammed by Reddit Migration. Does it handle moderation better?
@fediversereport Kind of a bummer in the design of AP that it replicates media and posts to any server that includes a follow relationship. Makes it a juicy target for spreading bad stuff.
@fediversereport It is past time to leave the Lemmy shitshow and move to kbin. Reddit may even have Lemmy beat.
@fediversereport I gave up hosting a Lemmy instance because the mod tools are nowhere near mature enough. I wouldn't want the responsibility.
@fediversereport Another thing to bear in mind is that (unlike Mastodon) there is no requirement to have more than one admin. Some reasonably popular instances have a single admin and some of those seem to have gone missing.
What will happen is anyone’s guess, presumably when the hosting isn’t paid they’ll just stop without warning. If they don’t get into legal trouble for not keeping their house in gear.