Some of you may have noticed a lot of people freaking out about CSAM and a bunch of communities closing, instances restricting registrations, turning off image uploads or shutting down completely. It’s a bit of a chaos.

Fortunately your admin has been fighting this fight for the past year so I have developed some tools to help me out. I repurposed one of them to cover lemmy images

Using this approach, I’ve now turned on automatic scanning of new uploads.

What this means for you is that occasionally you will upload an image for a post and it will stop working after a bit. C’est la vie. Just upload something else. Changing format or slightly altering the image won’t help you.

Also, sometimes you might see missing thumbnails on post from other communities. Those were the cached thumbnails hosted by us. The original images should still work in those cases.

Unfortunately this sort of AI scanning is not perfect and due to the nature of the beast, it will catch more false positives but to an acceptable degree. But I find that this is OK for a small social network site run as a hobby project.

Cool? Cool.

  • aldalire@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    57·
    1 year ago

    behavior like this baffle me. I wonder what they stand to gain by spamming CSAM? Purely destructive and psychopath behavior :|

    • db0@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPM
      722·
      1 year ago

      Most likely 4channers. They do stuff like that constantly and laugh at the panic

        • db0@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPM
          10·
          1 year ago

          We (thankfully) haven’t been targeted yet. This measure is precautionary, due to the issues affecting large instances like lemmy.world, causing potential federation of such content

      • theJWPHTER88@kbin.social
        3·
        1 year ago

        You have a common-sense point there, and so what should we (if not all Lemmy and Kbin online rafts and their denizens, most of them) do at this point?

        Have at least one competent, small-enough mental health team per instance or three, whose primary job functions alike that of an active mental health hotline, albeit geared towards the Fediverse citizen in need, admins, moderators, community builders, coders, creatives, and lurkers alike, but make sure they don’t overstep their bounds a bit too much, and that they also connect with others representing other instances, keeping in mind the right to privacy and all other related human rights to make sure the ecosystem stays healthy at all facets, not just in the online, but also in the “outside world” sense.

        For that, diversity, genuine compassion and science-and-humanity-based objectivity are also needed for those willing to take up those roles.