We have temporarily locked posting on AskLemmy until the CSAM posting stops.

  • Davel23@kbin.social
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    5 months ago

    That would still allow links to be posted. Better than allowing image posts, but not a complete solution.

    • maegul@lemmy.ml
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      5 months ago

      It prevents concerns about hosting CSAM posted by someone else. A categorical improvement I’d say. But yes, nothing’s perfect.

    • rar@discuss.online
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      5 months ago

      Still better than nothing. Easier for mods of text-only communities to only have text-only posts submitted.

      • Iron Lynx@lemmy.world
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        5 months ago

        If we then add a few conditions: “no links in the root message” and “OP may not be the first to comment within some unspecified amount of time,” that could make it even easier to limit CSAM.

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      5 months ago

      You’re right. I thought of another idea: use karma to decide who can post links, images and/or videos. 50 general karma for links, 100 for pictures, you get the idea.

      • DaleGribble88@programming.dev
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        Not an effective solution for a federated service. Just spin up a new instance and give yourself karma. Shoot, there is no centralized service for validating accounts, so just set up 50 alts across 50 instances.