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