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Lemmyshitpost community closed until further notice (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by lwadmin@lemmy.world to c/lemmyworld@lemmy.world
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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: @Striker@lemmy.world 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.

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[โ€“] HelloHotel@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yes, its a virus, the FBI will target anyone who is a host. anyone Who has it on their drive, (edit: intent may be relivant, im no expert). The only way to stay safe is to rid yourself of it. Delete it.

Lemmy mods, keep yourself safeplease dont use an iphone to moderate, if your on linux (i think windows too) use bleachbit on your browser cache and do the "vaccuum" operation.

On android

  • to clear cache or better written instructions here

    • go to where you see all your apps
    • find your client
    • tap and hold on its icon
    • tap "app info"
    • go to "storage"
    • tap "clear cache"
    • (if your parranoid "clear data" and loose you sign in, settings and other local data).

  • To manually vaccum, vant find better instructions

    • download an app called "termux", it doesnt need any permissions for this task.
    • when you see a black screen with text, type clear and hit enter,
    • Then type or paste
{ echo writing big file of random;
cat /dev/urandom >file-gets-big;
rm file-gets-big -v; }
  • And hit enter

Your phone and the program cat will complain About being out of storage, if rm gets run, it will be fixed again. If it still complains or termux crashes, uninstall and reinstall termux, the vaccum process is finished

Some people know at a glance wether these steps are safe or not, others do not. never follow instructions you dont understand, verify that i havent led you do somthing dumb.