Lemmy.world is temporarily disabling open signups and moving to an application-required signup process, due to ongoing issues with malicious bot accounts.
We know this is a major step to take, but we believe that it’s the right one for both us and our community right now.
We’re working on a better long-term technical solution to these bots, but that will take time to create, test, and verify that it doesn’t cause any problems with federation and how our users use our site, and we’d rather make sure we get it right than have a site that’s broken.
We’re making this change on 28 Aug 2023, and don’t have a specific timeline for how long registrations will require an application, but we will post an update once our new anti-abuse measures are in place and working.
Take care, LW Team
Good hope the child porn posting stops with that.
Are you serious? Holy shit. I haven’t seen any at all. But just the thought that someone is posting it. I hate people sometimes.
I’m so glad I somehow have completely avoided that so far. I’ve heard about, sure but that’s it
Same, and I’m on all the time.
I have not seen any of that and I sort by All.
With nsfw on? I do as well, but I usually have nsfw off
Not long after joining Lemmy, I was on the less fortunate side of things and ran into a troll post. I haven’t seen any of that horrid stuff on Lemmy since then, I assume the admins and mods have been dealing with it first hand… ☹️ hope they are OK, it isn’t good for anyone mentally.
Oh Christ, really? That’s just sickening. I often sort by new, sounds like I’ve been very lucky to miss it entirely…
Yeah i had the unpleasant encounter several times by now…
I’m guessing they’re not even flagging that shit as NSFW? I’ve been using liftoff and have the NSFW stuff hidden. I haven’t run into of it yet but that’s fucked up, hopefully it gets under control with this.
Maybe mods of each section can turn on manual approvals of submissions?
Manually approving submissions would be even more work. And shits being posted everywhere.
And no, the ones i had a unpleasant encounter with weren’t flaired nsfw.
To combat this until there is something in place to automate blocking it. Manually approval might just be the only way to deal with it for now. Places can add more moderators.
Isn’t there a tool (possible free) by Google I think that detects abusive material like this?
