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.

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      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 logout-lemmy and meet some people.

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            While we might seem annoying, I don’t think a community that consistently uses content warnings for text posts is the right place to look if you’re trying to find the kinds of people who would post that kind of imagery en masse.

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              been using it since chapo dot chat and I haven’t felt as nuts since using reddit years ago, as I have since federation was implemented

              it isnt even like they have to visit a whole ass other site, it just shows up inline with everything else

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            We’ve literally had people get site wide bans for failing to CW non vegan food before, the idea of anyone here posting CP to “own the libs” or something is so alien to the site culture and so fucking awful that the ideas completely out of question

            Especially when there are actual Lemmy instances federated with lemm.ee that are /pol/ adjacent where they do actually have a site culture of posting disgusting stuff like that

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            So someone takes the time to write out a civil and thought out response, and this is how you choose to react? pathetic
            You’re crying about being insulted, yet you fail to see how your yourself instigate these interactions. You’re a snivelling little baby

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        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?

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          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, @[email protected] 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?

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              You literally just said that you think hexbear users were posting CSAM to lemm.ee

              whats the over/under wager that it was retaliation for the recent “h e x b e a r” shit?

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                  So what other possible interpretation is there of that comment? would you be fine with coming into a hypothetical comments section about some similar CSAM spam being done against hexbear and seeing

                  whats the over/under wager that it was retaliation from thisbenzingring for being made fun of by hexbears?

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      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.

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        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.

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          What would it mean if lemmy as whole would get a reputation of being infested with cp? That’s the risk.

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      Pretty fucked up to accuse our userbase of spreading CSAM. Call us Putin-loving China bots or whatever, but accusing us of actual crimes with no evidence is too much.

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      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?

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        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.