Sorry for the short post, I’m not able to make it nice with full context at the moment, but I want to quickly get this announcement out to prevent confusion:
Unfortunately, people are uploading child sexual abuse images on some instances (apparently as a form of attack against Lemmy). I am taking some steps to prevent such content from making it onto lemm.ee servers. As one preventative measure, I am disabling all image uploads on lemm.ee until further notice - this is to ensure that lemm.ee can not be used as gateway to spread CSAM into the network.
It will not possible to upload any new avatars or banners while this limit is in effect.
I’m really sorry for the disruption, it’s a necessary trade-off for now until we figure out the way forward.
While we might seem annoying, I don’t think a community that consistently uses content warnings for text posts is the right place to look if you’re trying to find the kinds of people who would post that kind of imagery en masse.
been using it since chapo dot chat and I haven’t felt as nuts since using reddit years ago, as I have since federation was implemented
it isnt even like they have to visit a whole ass other site, it just shows up inline with everything else
Every time I see a lemmeee.eeeee thread I feel gross and no amount of scrubbing my skin off in the shower seems to help
It’s gotten so bad I even reply here it’s awful