Hey all, first of all I love you all for being here, this started as a small
side project and ballooned into a fun area to talk about pop music. Sadly, I
have to take the site down for a while while I rethink how I host. Currently,
this site is hosted on my own hardware, on my own network. Something that was
never an issue, I had some protections around it to keep it safe. I won’t go
into all details, but yesterday someone on another instance uploaded some
extremely vile child content that federated to several other instances. Ours was
not affected (luckily), but to be safe I purged everything from the last 24
hours.
Unfortuanately, this will be a growing trend, and Lemmy devs haven’t done much
to protect instance owners. If someone uploaded something like that to a
different instance that we subscribed to, technically I would also be hosting
that data. (Federation is cool, but it means we are all hosting it), which means
the feds could come and beat down my door for hosting it. In the short term, I’m
going to let this go out so others can see it, but I’m hoping it’ll be federated
for other users while I convert over. Step 1 is that I cannot host this locally,
I need to get it off my network and into the cloud. Steps 2, 3, 4, and on are
going to be adding protections so stuff can’t ever get in in the first place,
integrating tools, and probably working with the lemmy developers on ways to
prevent it in the first place. I don’t know how long we’ll be down, but
unfortunately someone else ruined it for all of us for a bit. I’ll do my best to
come back up soon while I shore up our ingest. -Your swiftie admin, Scrubbles
They are a dumbass if they do this cause they will get prosecuted themselves for posting that. There’s a safe harbor provision for server admins so long as they make a good faith effort to report when it is brought to their attention (at least in the US). So long as you are doing your due diligence as a web host, you should be fine.
Yeah, I think until a solution is found image hosting should be blocked, and instead rely on external image hosting sites. That seems like the best immediate solution.
Fascist shutdown of public discourse, step by step:
They are a dumbass if they do this cause they will get prosecuted themselves for posting that. There’s a safe harbor provision for server admins so long as they make a good faith effort to report when it is brought to their attention (at least in the US). So long as you are doing your due diligence as a web host, you should be fine.
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Whatever dumbass decided to upload that shit should be watching their back honestly
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I’m talking about when the government wants an excuse for shutting down public discourse. Obviously it isn’t going to prosecute itself.
They have much less roundabout ways of shutting things down if they really want to.
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imo it’s more likely that some agitator dickweed would do that than a government. Both are conceivable, though.
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ha! Yes!
Ah yes, it was all a false flag, instigated by the government to take away our freedoms, I get it
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Also screenshots of csam would count as csam right
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Yeah, I think until a solution is found image hosting should be blocked, and instead rely on external image hosting sites. That seems like the best immediate solution.