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: @[email protected] 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.

  • @[email protected]
    11•1 year ago

    No one is paid for this, but moderation is going to become a problem for Lemmy and the volunteers who are admins are going to need support.

    yes, that’s what i’m saying. We should acknowledge that we are fortunate to have dedicated volunteer devs and work on helping/supporting them.

    • HobbitFoot English
      11•1 year ago

      We definitely should acknowledge the volunteer devs supporting the platform, but we need to address that there may be issues with the tools for mods as is and we need the paid devs to pull back from only coding and do more design of the architecture that can be filled in by volunteer devs.

        • HobbitFoot English
          5•1 year ago

          There are donation pages that fund the two devs. They haven’t complained about the funds yet.

          • @[email protected]English
            4•1 year ago

            Oh. Is there any indication of how much they may have actually received via these donation pages?

            The vast majority of FOSS projects receive hardly anything in donations - even those with many users.

            The term “paid dev” implies a salaried position. I would be astonished if the amount they’ve received is anything like a salary given the time requirements.

            • @[email protected]English
              3•1 year ago

              The do get a certain amount from a foundation each time they reach a certain milestone. Perhaps those milestones need to be adjusted.